Summit meetings
What Summit meetings means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Meetings held from 1959 to 1961 at Geneva, Camp David, Paris and Vienna, which failed to reach a lasting agreement and ended with increased tension at Vienna in 1961.
A series of meetings between Reagan and Gorbachev, notably Geneva (1985), Reykjavik (1986) and Washington (1987), which built mutual trust.
Topics that use Summit meetings
- Option P4: Key topic 2: Cold War crises, 1958–70 - 1 Increased tension between East and West (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Option P4: Key topic 3: The end of the Cold War, 1970–91 - 2 The end of détente and the ‘Second Cold War’ (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
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- INF Treaty
- nationalisation
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