East-West Summit Conference-Soviet Aggression-

Meghan Abrahamsonand Sarah Jewell

Period 4

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

“The Big Four”

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Edgar Faure

Anthony Eden

Nikolai A. Bulganin

When and Where• July 18, 1955• Geneva, Switzerland

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.

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

Topics of the Conference

At the conference they also discussed:• East-West trade agreements• Tariffs• Arms race• International security• International community

Facts

• The disarmament of weapons of mass destruction

• First meeting since the Potsdam ten years earlier

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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