End of Cold War summits
- Created by: Will Miller
- Created on: 31-05-13 11:11
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- Summits
- Moscow '88
- Signed agreements on the more complex aspects of INF
- RR no real negotiating objectives - wanted to meet the people
- Met Soviet dissidents and addressed students at the Uni
- Brought little tangible results
- RR withdrew his view of the USSR as an 'evil empire' - 'another time and era'
- RR spoke of his 'deep feelings of friendship'
- Washington '87
- Signed the INF Treaty
- Removed all missiles with intermediate range
- Soviets removed more than the US did
- Possibly the most significant joint step to ending the arms race
- Gorby made no demands for withdraw of SDI
- Many US officials left office before the summit (supported SDI)
- Gorby agress to the 'zero option' proposed by Reagan
- Removal of intermediate-range nukes from Europe
- Gorby agreed to withdraw from Afgan
- Signed the INF Treaty
- Reykjavik '86
- Gorby left feeling that RR still wanted to continue the arms race
- Gorby proposed phasing out nukes
- Gorby however described it as an 'intellectual breakthrough'
- Opportunity to make sweeping reforms regarding nukes
- Huge opportunity lost
- Malta '89
- Bush
- Agreed not to interfere in Germany or Baltic states
- START agreed in '91
- Reduced nuclear warheads to 9,000 each
- Strategic Arms Reduction Talks
- Established good relations with Gorby
- Much of Eastern Europe already removed communism
- No new agreements but declared the CW was over
- 'buried the Cold War at the bottom of the Mediterranean
- First meeting between Bush and Gorby - good relations
- 'Seasick Summit'
- Most important since Yalta '45?
- Bush
- Geneva '85
- A 'watershed in relations'
- Little decided but important in establishing a personal rapport
- Both thought the meeting was a success
- Gorby thought RR ensured discussions kept simple - 'political dinosaur'
- Warm relations - Gorby had removed the ideological split
- Gorby introduces idea of 'reasonable sufficiency' - open rejection of aggression
- Moscow '88
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