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40 - EVENTS/DIPLOMACY/Bandung Conference.md

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   - Diplomacy
 category: Diplomacy
 summary: 1955 meeting of Asian and African states in Indonesia that established the Non-Aligned Movement, attended by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and shaping Cold War diplomacy.
+start: 1955-04-18
+end: 1955-04-24
+location: "Bandung, Indonesia"
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 The Bandung Conference was a meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent, held in Bandung, Indonesia, in April 1955. Egyptian leader [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] attended this conference and received a promise from [[Chou En-lai]], the Chinese premier, for as many arms as [[Egypt]] could afford. This marked a significant step in Nasser's efforts to secure military aid from the Communist world.[^1]
 

40 - EVENTS/DIPLOMACY/Camp David summit.md

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   - Diplomacy
 category: Diplomacy
 summary: 1978 meetings between Egyptian President Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Begin, facilitated by Jimmy Carter, leading to the Egypt-Israel peace treaty.
+start: 1978-09-05
+end: 1978-09-17
+location: "Camp David, Maryland"
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 Camp David summit was a series of meetings between Egyptian President [[Anwar Sadat]] and Israeli Prime Minister [[Menachem Begin]], facilitated by U.S. President [[Jimmy Carter]], in September 1978. The summit led to the [[Camp David Accords]], which were seen as a significant step towards peace in the [[Middle East]]. Some American intelligence officials suspected that Carter's decision to provide [[Israel]] with KH-11 satellite photographs was a reward for Begin's success at this summit.[^1]
 

40 - EVENTS/DIPLOMACY/Geneva Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy.md

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags:
   - Diplomacy
 category: "Diplomacy"
 summary: "1955 international scientific conference in Geneva with 1,500 delegates from 70 nations, marking the first major open exchange of nuclear knowledge."
+date: 1955
+location: "Geneva, Switzerland"
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 The Geneva Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy was a major international scientific conference held in [[Geneva]] in 1955. More than fifteen hundred delegates from seventy nations, including [[Israel]], whose delegation was led by [[Ernst David Bergmann]], took part. [[Lewis L. Strauss]] publicly joined the Israeli delegation in prayer during this conference, despite his private feelings about Zionism.[^1]
 

40 - EVENTS/DIPLOMACY/Paris Summit Meeting.md

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   - Diplomacy
 category: Diplomacy
 summary: 1960 summit between Eisenhower and Khrushchev that collapsed after the U-2 Incident, derailing a potential US-Soviet detente.
+date: 1960
+location: "Paris, France"
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 The Paris Summit Meeting was scheduled for a few weeks after the [[U-2 Incident]] in May 1960, but was ruined by [[Nikita Khrushchev]]'s rage at the incident, which caught the White House in a series of lies. This event led [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower]] to order an end to all reconnaissance flights over [[Russia]].[^1]