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East-West Summit Conference-Soviet Aggression-
Meghan Abrahamsonand Sarah Jewell
Period 4
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Who “The Big Four”
• President Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Prime Minister Anthony Eden of the U.K.
• Nikolai A. Bulganin of the Soviet Union
• Prime Minister Edgar Faure of France
And other participants:• Foreign Ministers: John
Foster Dulles, Harold Macmillan, Vyacheslav Molotov Antoine Pinay
• Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union
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“The Big Four”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Edgar Faure
Anthony Eden
Nikolai A. Bulganin
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When and Where• July 18, 1955• Geneva, Switzerland
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Main Point
• “Open Skies”presented by Eisenhower
- “Open Skies” was a proposal that the U.S. and the Soviet Union could fly over each other's territory.
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Response to the Proposal
• The Soviet Union rejected the proposal because they feared that the United States would take advantage and try to locate where the Soviets were keeping their weapons
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Topics of the Conference
At the conference they also discussed:• East-West trade agreements• Tariffs• Arms race• International security• International community
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Facts
• The disarmament of weapons of mass destruction
• First meeting since the Potsdam ten years earlier
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Purpose
• Was to bring the worlds most powerful political leaders together to discuss peace
• Prevent countries from having mass amounts of dangerous weapons
• Trade • Democracy
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