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He temporarily rejoined the Geneva Conference under the Five-Power Agreement but quickly withdrew Germany again as progressions with the conference began to halt. [11] The military superiority of Germany was a defining element of Hitler's ideology and foreign policy, which made the idea of disarmament unacceptable. [17]
The Geneva Summit of 1955 was a Cold War-era meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.Held on July 18, 1955, it was a meeting of "The Big Four": President Dwight D. Eisenhower of the United States, Prime Minister Anthony Eden of Britain, Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin of the Soviet Union, and Prime Minister Edgar Faure of France. [1]
The Geneva Conference was intended to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War and involved several nations. It took place in Geneva , Switzerland , from 26 April to 20 July 1954.
The Geneva Conventions, which were most recently revised in 1949, consist of seven individual treaties which are open to ratification or accession by any sovereign state. They are: The Geneva Conventions. First Geneva Convention; Second Geneva Convention; Third Geneva Convention; Fourth Geneva Convention; Additional Protocols Protocol I ...
Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments, a.k.a. Geneva Disarmament Conference (1932–1934) Geneva Naval Conference (1927), on naval arms limitation; Geneva I Conference on Syria (2012) Geneva II Conference on Syria (2014) Geneva Conference (1932), a continuation of the 1927 naval conference; Geneva Conference (1954), on Korea ...
The subsequent Geneva Conference (26 April – 20 July 1954) achieved a temporary peace in French Indochina and France's withdrawal from Vietnam, but formal peace in Korea remained elusive. [19] On 23 October 1954 the Soviet Union proposed another Big Four conference to discuss reunification of Germany and withdrawal of the occupying forces. [23]
The Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War was signed at Geneva, July 27, 1929. [1] [2] Its official name is the Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. It entered into force 19 June 1931. [3] It is this version of the Geneva Conventions which covered the treatment of prisoners of war during World War II.
In total Attlee attended 0.5 meetings, Churchill 16.5, de Gaulle 1, Roosevelt 12, Stalin 7, and Truman 1. For some of the major wartime conference meetings involving Roosevelt and later Truman, the code names were words which included a numeric prefix corresponding to the ordinal number of the conference in the series of such conferences.