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Conference of Vienna

United States of America · Government / Democratic Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1961

John Fitzgerald KennedyJune 1961

Vienna · Government / Democratic Party Government

The failure of the two leaders to resolve any of their differences during the summit led Khrushchev to view Kennedy as a weak president. Kennedy attends a summit with Premier Khrushchev in Vienna to discuss cold war confrontations between the east & west, in particular the situation in Berlin

Names involved

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Provenance

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