Question

The importance of the summit meetings of 1959-61 for relations between East
and West.

Answer 1

The Vienna summit was a summit meeting held on June 4, 1961, in Vienna, Austria, between President John F. Kennedy of the United States and Premier Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union. The leaders of the two superpowers of the Cold War era discussed numerous issues in the relationship between their countries. ... Between 1945 and 1961, 2.7 million East Germans emigrated from East