Malta Summit

Examples of Malta Summit in the following topics:

• The End of the Cold War

  • During 1987 summit meetings, Reagan and Gorbachev agreed to nuclear arms reductions, ushering in the end of the decades-long Cold War.
  • Gorbachev and Reagan held four summit conferences between 1985 and 1988: the first in Geneva, Switzerland; the second in Reykjavík, Iceland; the third in Washington, D.C.; and the fourth in Moscow.
  • In November 1989, the Berlin Wall was torn down, the Cold War was officially declared over at the Malta Summit on December 3, 1989, and—two years later—the Soviet Union collapsed.

• The George H.W. Bush Administration

  • In 1989, just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, President Bush met with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in a conference on the Mediterranean island of Malta.
  • The administration had been under intense pressure to meet with the Soviets, but not all of Bush's advisers initially thought the Malta summit to be a step in the right direction.
  • Another summit was held in July of 1991, when the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I) was signed by Bush and Gorbachev in Moscow.

• "The Hour of Maximum Danger"

  • On June 4, 1961, Kennedy met with USSR leader Khrushchev at the Vienna Summit .
  • Shortly after Kennedy returned home from the Vienna Summit, the USSR announced its intention to sign a treaty with East Berlin, abrogating any third-party occupation rights in either sector of the city.
  • In the weeks immediately after the Vienna summit and the USSR treaty with East Berlin, more than 20,000 people fled from East Berlin to the western sector in reaction to statements from the USSR.
  • In the Vienna summit meeting in June 1961, Khrushchev and Kennedy reached an informal understanding against nuclear testing, but the Soviet Union began testing nuclear weapons that September.
  • Kennedy meeting Nikita Khrushchev at the Vienna Summit in June, 1961.

• The "New World Order"

  • There appear to have been three distinct periods in which it was progressively redefined, first by the Soviets, and later by the United States before the Malta Conference, and again after Bush's speech of September 11, 1990.
  • The Malta Conference collected these various expectations, and they were fleshed out in more detail by the press.
  • The Malta Conference on December 2–3, 1989 reinvigorated discussion of the new world order.

• Neolithic Monuments

  • Neolithic societies produced female and animal statues, engravings and elaborate pottery decoration but in Western Europe it is best represented by its megalithic (large stone) monuments and passage tomb structures which have been found from Malta to Portugal, through France and Germany, and across southern England to most of Wales and Ireland.
  • The megalithic temple complexes of Ggantija on the Mediterranean islands of Gozo and Malta are notable for their gigantic Neolithic structures which date to 3600 BCE.
  • The Hypogeum of Hal-Saflieni, located in Pola, Malta, is a subterranean structure excavated circa 2500 BCE, the only prehistoric underground temple in the world, showing a degree of stone artistry unique to the Maltese islands.

• Brucellosis (Undulant Fever)

  • Brucellosis, also called Bang's disease, Crimean fever, Gibraltar fever, Malta fever, Maltese fever, Mediterranean fever, rock fever, or undulant fever, is a highly-contagious zoonosis caused by ingestion of unsterilized milk or meat from infected animals or close contact with their secretions.

• Meristems

  • The central zone is located at the meristem summit, where a small group of slowly dividing cells can be found.
  • The proliferation and growth rates at the meristem summit usually differ considerably from those at the periphery.

• Peter the Great

  • Furthermore, in 1698 Peter sent a delegation to Malta to observe the training and abilities of the Knights of Malta and their fleet.

• Arches of the Feet

  • Its summit is at the superior articular surface of the talus.
  • Its summit is at the talocalcaneal articulation, and its chief joint is the calcaneocuboid, which possesses a special mechanism for locking and allows only a limited movement.

• The Transcontinental Railroads

  • Some tunnels took almost a year to finish; the Summit Tunnel, the longest, took almost two years.
  • In the final days of working in the Sierras, the recently invented nitroglycerin explosive was introduced and used on the last tunnels including Summit Tunnel.