paris summit, may 1960

• what led to paris summit?

  camp david talks sept 59 (Khrush visited USA, first sov leader to do this!) agree international issues via diplomacy, managed to calm Gn issue
• what did Khrush want?

  deal over berlin, agreement to prohibit nuclear weapons in pacific and ban on weapons in Gn.
• why did the summit collapse?

  u-2 crisis
• what did JFK do?

  • increased defence budget and promised more flexible conventional forces.
  • JFK and Khrush met in Vienna, June 1961. Khrush thought JFK was young vulnerable leader who would be easy to manipulate.