Summit meetings 1959-61


	Summit meetings 1959-61
	Causes Geneva (May 1959) involving foreign representatives only Camp David (September 1959) involving Eisenhower and Khrushchev Paris Summit (May 1960) involving Eisenhower and Khrushchev Vienna Conference (Janurary 1961), involving Kennedy and Khrushchev	Effects No solution agreed but a further summit organised for Camp David in the USA No solution agreed but a further meeting arranged in Paris A disaster. Khrushchev stormed out because the Soviet Union had shot down a US spy plane over Russia Neither was willing to back down. Khrushchev saw Kennedy's inexperience as a weakness and reissued his ultimatum for the USA to remove its troops from Berlin
	Overall summary Nothing happened at the summit meetings apart from the Ultimatum

No solution agreed but a further summit organised for Camp David in the USA
No solution agreed but a further meeting arranged in Paris
A disaster. Khrushchev stormed out because the Soviet Union had shot down a US spy plane over Russia
Neither was willing to back down. Khrushchev saw Kennedy's inexperience as a weakness and reissued his ultimatum for the USA to remove its troops from Berlin

Nothing happened at the summit meetings apart from the Ultimatum

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