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Period: to
Modern Times
American Troops helped defend South Korea -
Korean War
American Troops help defend South Korea -
Vietnam
U.S. build up of troops in Vietnam war -
Bay of Pigs
U.S. sponsored invasion of Cuba fails. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
U.S. foreces Soviet Union to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba -
Nixon
President Nixon visits China and Soviet Union. Nixon and Brezhnev sign first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. (SALT) -
OPEC
OPEC places an embargo on oil to U.S. because of the nation's support for Israel in October War -
Paris Peace Accords
Paris Peace Accords are signed, ending U.S. involvement in the4 Vietnam War -
Canal
U.S. signs treaty agreeing to return Canal Zone and control of canal to Panama by 1999 -
Camp David accords
President Jimmy Carter sponsers peace talks between Egypt and Israel. -
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
In reponse U.S, places and embargo on sales of American grain to Soviet Union, boycotts Moscow olympic Games, and delays completion of SALT II. -
China
U.S establishes full diplomatic relations with China. -
Reagan
Ronald Reagan orders invasion of Grenada after a Marxist revolution in that Caribbean Nation. -
Iran Weapons Deal
American public learns that U.S. secretly sold weapons to Iran in hopes of gaining release of American Hostages in Lebanon. -
Panama
U.S. invades panama and captured Manuel Noriega -
Bush
Bush and Gorbachev hold summit in Washington D.C. -
Persian Gulf War
U.S. led multinational force ends Iraqi occupation of Kuwait. -
Attack on U.S.
The War on Terrorism.
