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Yalta, Potsdam, Reykjavik, Camp David - which leaders-at-the-table moment actually bent history?

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Summit↕	Year↕	Location↕	Key Leaders↕	Outcome↕	Notes↕
Congress of Vienna	1815	Vienna, Austria	Metternich, Castlereagh, Talleyrand, Tsar Alexander I	Redrew Europe after Napoleon	Nine months of aristocratic dealmaking established 99 years of relative European peace
Berlin Conference	1884	Berlin, Germany	Bismarck and European powers	Partitioned Africa	Formalized Scramble for Africa with no African representatives, drew arbitrary borders
Paris Peace Conference	1919	Paris, France	Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau, Orlando	Treaty of Versailles	Punitive terms on Germany widely blamed for sowing seeds of WWII
Munich Agreement	1938	Munich, Germany	Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler, Mussolini	Ceded Sudetenland to Germany	Chamberlain's peace in our time promise, epitome of failed appeasement
Atlantic Conference	1941	Placentia Bay, Newfoundland	Roosevelt and Churchill	Atlantic Charter	Shipboard summit laid foundation for UN and Allied war aims before US entered WWII
Tehran Conference	1943	Tehran, Iran	Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin	Coordinated WWII strategy	First Big Three meeting, agreed on D-Day opening and postwar outline
Yalta Conference	1945	Yalta, Crimea	Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin	Divided postwar Europe	Shaped spheres of influence, formation of UN, fate of Poland controversially settled
Potsdam Conference	1945	Potsdam, Germany	Truman, Churchill/Attlee, Stalin	Finalized WWII endgame	Issued Potsdam Declaration demanding Japan's surrender, tensions foreshadowed Cold War
Bandung Conference	1955	Bandung, Indonesia	Nehru, Sukarno, Zhou Enlai, Nasser	Birth of Non-Aligned Movement	29 Asian and African states asserted Third World neutrality in Cold War
Camp David Accords	1978	Camp David, USA	Carter, Sadat, Begin	Egypt-Israel peace	13 days of negotiation produced first Arab-Israeli peace treaty, Nobel Peace Prize for Sadat and Begin
Reykjavik Summit	1986	Reykjavik, Iceland	Reagan and Gorbachev	Set stage for INF Treaty	Nearly agreed to total nuclear disarmament, unraveled over SDI but thawed Cold War
Malta Summit	1989	Malta	George H.W. Bush and Gorbachev	Declared Cold War over	Shipboard summit after fall of Berlin Wall formally ended four decades of hostility
Oslo Accords signing	1993	Washington, USA	Rabin, Arafat, Clinton	Israel-PLO mutual recognition	Historic White House handshake created Palestinian Authority, process later collapsed
Good Friday Agreement	1998	Belfast, Northern Ireland	Blair, Ahern, Trimble, Hume	Ended the Troubles	Power-sharing deal brought 30 years of Northern Ireland sectarian violence to an end
Paris Climate Summit (COP21)	2015	Paris, France	Hollande, Obama, Xi, Modi	Paris Climate Agreement	195 nations committed to limit warming well below 2 C, first universal climate deal
Singapore Summit	2018	Singapore	Trump and Kim Jong Un	First US-North Korea summit	Historic meeting produced vague denuclearization pledge and no follow-through
Helsinki Accords signing	1975	Helsinki, Finland	Brezhnev, Ford, 35 states	Human rights framework	CSCE Final Act recognized postwar borders and injected human rights into Cold War diplomacy

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