Malta Summit

Examples of Malta Summit in the following topics:

• The End of the Cold War

  • During 1987 summit meetings, Reagan and Gorbachev agreed to nuclear arms reductions, ushering in the end of the decades-long Cold War.
  • Gorbachev and Reagan held four summit conferences between 1985 and 1988: the first in Geneva, Switzerland; the second in Reykjavík, Iceland; the third in Washington, D.C.; and the fourth in Moscow.
  • In November 1989, the Berlin Wall was torn down, the Cold War was officially declared over at the Malta Summit on December 3, 1989, and—two years later—the Soviet Union collapsed.

• The George H.W. Bush Administration

  • In 1989, just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, President Bush met with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in a conference on the Mediterranean island of Malta.
  • The administration had been under intense pressure to meet with the Soviets, but not all of Bush's advisers initially thought the Malta summit to be a step in the right direction.
  • Another summit was held in July of 1991, when the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I) was signed by Bush and Gorbachev in Moscow.

• "The Hour of Maximum Danger"

  • On June 4, 1961, Kennedy met with USSR leader Khrushchev at the Vienna Summit .
  • Shortly after Kennedy returned home from the Vienna Summit, the USSR announced its intention to sign a treaty with East Berlin, abrogating any third-party occupation rights in either sector of the city.
  • In the weeks immediately after the Vienna summit and the USSR treaty with East Berlin, more than 20,000 people fled from East Berlin to the western sector in reaction to statements from the USSR.
  • In the Vienna summit meeting in June 1961, Khrushchev and Kennedy reached an informal understanding against nuclear testing, but the Soviet Union began testing nuclear weapons that September.
  • Kennedy meeting Nikita Khrushchev at the Vienna Summit in June, 1961.

• The "New World Order"

  • There appear to have been three distinct periods in which it was progressively redefined, first by the Soviets, and later by the United States before the Malta Conference, and again after Bush's speech of September 11, 1990.
  • The Malta Conference collected these various expectations, and they were fleshed out in more detail by the press.
  • The Malta Conference on December 2–3, 1989 reinvigorated discussion of the new world order.

• The Transcontinental Railroads

  • Some tunnels took almost a year to finish; the Summit Tunnel, the longest, took almost two years.
  • In the final days of working in the Sierras, the recently invented nitroglycerin explosive was introduced and used on the last tunnels including Summit Tunnel.

• The Reagan Administration

  • Gorbachev's attempts at reform, as well as summit conferences with U.S.

• The Expanding Axis

  • Italy seized Malta in June of 1940, conquered British Somaliland in August, and made an incursion into British-held Egypt in September.

• Yalta and the Postwar World

  • Yalta summit in February 1945 with (from left to right) Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin.

• Crisis in Berlin

  • Kennedy in the Vienna summit on June 4, 1961, Premier Khrushchev caused a new crisis when he reissued his threat to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany, which he said would end existing four-power agreements guaranteeing American, British, and French access rights to West Berlin.

• Nixon and the Economy

  • With inflation unresolved by August of 1971 and an election year looming, however, Nixon convened a summit of his economic advisers at Camp David.