title: Summit Meetings, US–Soviet
abstract: A ‘meeting at the summit’ became an important diplomatic device in US–Soviet relations during the final years of World War II. Three wartime summit meetings (or ‘conferences’) held at Teheran in November 1943, Yalta in February 1945, and Potsdam in July 1945, were trilateral meetings of British, US, and Soviet heads of government. These face-to-face meetings allowed heads of government and accompanying experts to act quickly on issues about post-war Europe and Asia. President Roosevelt’s visit t