List of Soviet Union–United States summits

Moscow Summit (1988) postage stamps, Spasskaya Tower and handshake

Soviet Union–United States summits were held from 1943 to 1991. The topics discussed at the summits between the president of the United States and either the general secretary or the premier of the Soviet Union ranged from fighting the Axis Powers during World War II to arms control between the two superpowers themselves during the Cold War.^[1]

World War II / Allies of World War II

The "Big Three" Allied leaders (left to right) at the Yalta Conference, February 1945: Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin.

Clement Attlee, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945.

Cold War

Cold War (1953–1962)

Nikita Khrushchev meeting John F. Kennedy at the Vienna Summit, June 1961

Cold War (1962–1979)

Alexei Kosygin with U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson at the summit

Leonid Brezhnev meets with Richard Nixon during the Soviet leader's trip to the U.S. in June 1973

Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev signing SALT II Treaty, June 18, 1979, in Vienna

Cold War (1985–1991)

Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan sign the INF Treaty at the White House in December 1987

George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev at the Helsinki summit in 1990

See also

• Arms control
• Cold War
• Détente
• Foreign policy of the United States
• Foreign relations of the Soviet Union
• List of international trips made by presidents of the United States
• Nuclear disarmament
• Soviet Union–United States relations
• List of Russia–United States summits

References

1. Fain III, W. Taylor "Chronology: US-Soviet summits, 1943-1991" Archived 2011-11-09 at the Wayback Machine US Department of State Dispatch, August 12, 1991
2. "Travels of President Franklin D. Roosevelt". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on 2011-11-09.
3. "Presidents Travels to Russia". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on 2012-01-31.
4. "Travels of President Harry S. Truman". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on 2011-11-09.
5. "Travels of President Dwight D. Eisenhower". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on 2011-12-05.
6. "Visits By Foreign Leaders of Russia". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on 2011-11-09.
7. "1959 Year In Review Khrushchev Visits the United States". United Press International. Archived from the original on 2012-01-06.
8. "Travels of President John F. Kennedy". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on 2011-11-09.
9. "Travels of President Richard M. Nixon". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on 2011-11-09.
10. "Travels of President Gerald R. Ford". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on 2011-11-09.
11. "Travels of President Jimmy Carter". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on 2011-12-06.
12. "Travels of President Ronald Reagan". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on 2011-11-09.
13. "Travels of President George H. W. Bush". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on 2011-11-09.
14. "Joint News Conference of President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in Helsinki, Finland September 9, 1990". The American Presidency Project. Archived from the original on October 2, 2012.

External links

• Zbigniew Brzezinski interviewed about the summits from the Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archives
• "Address to the Nation on the Soviet-United States Summit Meeting December 10, 1987". Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Archived from the original on August 26, 2011.
• "Reagan, Gorbachev and Bush at Governor's Island". The National Security Archive. Archived from the original on 2012-01-14.