List of Soviet Union–United States summits

Soviet Union–United States summits were held from 1943 to 1991. The topics discussed at the summits between the President of the United States and either the General Secretary or the Premier of the Soviet Union ranged from fighting the Axis Powers during World War II to arms control between the two superpowers themselves during the Cold War.^[1]

Allies of World War II

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The "Big Three" Allied leaders (left to right) at the Yalta Conference February 1945: Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin.

Clement Attlee, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945.

Date	Site	President of the United States	General Secretary or Premier of the Soviet Union	Notes
November 28–December 1, 1943	Tehran, Iran^[2]	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Joseph Stalin	Also in attendance Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom. See Tehran Conference
February 4–11, 1945	Yalta, Soviet Union^[2]	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Joseph Stalin	Also in attendance Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom. First visit by a United States President to the Soviet Union.^[3] See Yalta Conference
July 17–August 2, 1945	Potsdam, Soviet occupied Germany^[4]	Harry S. Truman	Joseph Stalin	Also in attendance Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee of the United Kingdom. See Potsdam Conference

Cold War (1953–1962)

Nikita Khrushchev views the wreckage of a downed Lockheed U-2. The 1960 U-2 incident was a major topic at the May 16–17, 1960 summit in Paris.

Nikita Khrushchev meeting John F. Kennedy at the Vienna Summit June 1961

Date	Site	President of the United States	General Secretary or Premier of the Soviet Union	Notes
July 18–23, 1955	Geneva, Switzerland^[5]	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin	Also in attendance Prime Minister Anthony Eden of the United Kingdom and Prime Minister Edgar Faure of France. See Geneva Summit
September 15, 26–27, 1959	Washington, D.C. and Camp David, United States^[6]^[7]	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Nikita Khrushchev	First visit by a Soviet leader to the United States.
May 16–17, 1960	Paris, France^[5]	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Nikita Khrushchev	Also in attendance Prime Minister Harold Macmillan of the United Kingdom and President Charles de Gaulle of France. Khrushchev left the summit due to the dispute over the 1960 U-2 incident.
June 3–4, 1961	Vienna, Austria^[8]	John F. Kennedy	Nikita Khrushchev	See Vienna Summit

Cold War (1962–1979)

Date	Site	President of the United States	General Secretary or Premier of the Soviet Union	Notes
June 23 and 25, 1967	Glassboro, United States^[6]	Lyndon B. Johnson	Alexei Kosygin	See Glassboro Summit Conference
May 22–30, 1972	Moscow, Soviet Union^[9]	Richard Nixon	Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin	Signing of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I), and the U.S.–Soviet Incidents at Sea Agreement. See Moscow Summit (1972).
June 18–25, 1973	Washington, D.C., United States^[6]	Richard Nixon	Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin	Signing of the Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War.
June 28–July 3, 1974	Moscow, Soviet Union^[9]	Richard Nixon	Leonid Brezhnev	Signing of the Threshold Test Ban Treaty (TTBT).
November 23–24, 1974	Vladivostok, Soviet Union^[10]	Gerald Ford	Leonid Brezhnev	See Vladivostok Summit Meeting on Arms Control
July 30 and August 2, 1975	Helsinki, Finland^[10]	Gerald Ford	Leonid Brezhnev	See Helsinki Accords and Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
June 15–18, 1979	Vienna, Austria^[11]	Jimmy Carter	Leonid Brezhnev	Signing of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II).

Leonid Brezhnev meets with Richard Nixon during the Soviet leader's trip to the U.S. in June 1973

Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev signing SALT II Treaty, June 18, 1979, in Vienna

Cold War (1985–1991)

Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan sign the INF Treaty at the White House in December 1987

George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev at the Helsinki summit in 1990

Date	Site	President of the United States	General Secretary or Premier of the Soviet Union	Notes
November 19–21, 1985	Geneva, Switzerland^[12]	Ronald Reagan	Mikhail Gorbachev	See Geneva Summit
October 10–12, 1986	Reykjavík, Iceland^[12]	Ronald Reagan	Mikhail Gorbachev	See Reykjavík Summit
December 7–10, 1987	Washington, D.C., United States^[6]	Ronald Reagan	Mikhail Gorbachev	Signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. See Washington Summit.
May 29–June 1, 1988	Moscow, Soviet Union^[12]	Ronald Reagan	Mikhail Gorbachev	See Moscow Summit (1988).
December 7, 1988	New York City, United States^[6]	Ronald Reagan	Mikhail Gorbachev	Also in attendance President-elect George H. W. Bush. Gorbachev left the summit early due to the 1988 Spitak earthquake which struck the Armenian S.S.R. that same day.
December 2–3, 1989	Valletta, Malta^[13]	George H. W. Bush	Mikhail Gorbachev	See Malta Summit
May 30–June 3, 1990	Washington, D.C., United States^[6]	George H. W. Bush	Mikhail Gorbachev	Signing of the 1990 Chemical Weapons Accord
September 9, 1990	Helsinki, Finland^[13]	George H. W. Bush	Mikhail Gorbachev	Discussed the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.^[14]
November 19, 1990	Paris, France^[13]	George H. W. Bush	Mikhail Gorbachev	Signing of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
July 17, 1991	London, United Kingdom^[13]	George H. W. Bush	Mikhail Gorbachev	Held in conjunction with the 17th G7 Summit.
July 30–31, 1991	Moscow, Soviet Union^[13]	George H. W. Bush	Mikhail Gorbachev	Signing of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I).
October 29–30, 1991	Madrid, Spain^[13]	George H. W. Bush	Mikhail Gorbachev	Held in conjunction with the Madrid Conference of 1991.

References

↑ Fain III, W. Taylor "Chronology: US-Soviet summits, 1943-1991" US Department of State Dispatch, August 12, 1991
↑ 2.0 2.1 Travels of President Franklin D. Roosevelt U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
↑ Presidents Travels to Russia U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
↑ Travels of President Harry S. Truman U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
↑ 5.0 5.1 Travels of President Dwight D. Eisenhower U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Visits By Foreign Leaders of Russia U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
↑ 1959 Year In Review Khrushchev Visits the United States WebCitation archive
↑ Travels of President John F. Kennedy U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
↑ 9.0 9.1 Travels of President Richard M. Nixon U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
↑ 10.0 10.1 Travels of President Gerald R. Ford U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
↑ Travels of President Jimmy Carter U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Travels of President Ronald Reagan U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 Travels of President George H.W. Bush U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian WebCitation archive
↑ "Joint News Conference of President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in Helsinki, Finland September 9, 1990" The American Presidency Project WebCitation archive

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