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American troops help defend South Korea
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United States sponsored invasion of Cuba fails
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United States forces Soviet Union to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba. The build up of troops in Vietnam War began to develop
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President Richard Nixon visits China and Soviet Union. Nixon and Brezhnev sign first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT)
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Paris Peace Accords are signed, ending United States involvement in Vietnam War
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OPEC places an embargo on oil to United States because of the nation's support for Israel in October War
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United States signs treaty agreeing to return Canal Zone and control of canal to Panama by 1999
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Signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem, and President Jimmy Carter. Peace talks sponsored between Egypt and Israel about the Camp David Accords. Twelve secret meetings between the few were held after
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U.S. establishes full diplomatic relations with China. In response to Soviet invasion in Afghanistan, U.S. places an embargo on sales of American grain to Soviet Union, boycotts Moscow Olympic Games, and delays completion of SALT II
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President Ronald Reagan orders invasion of Grenada after a Marxist revolution in that Caribbean nation
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American public learns that U.S. secretly sold weapons to Iran in hopes of gaining release of American hostages in Lebanon
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Code name 'Operation Just Cause', the U.S. army, air force, navy, and marines invade the nation of Panama under the administration of George W. Bush, and captures Manuel Noriega, Panama's military dictator. 516 Panamanians killed, while the U.S. suffered 1,000 casualties
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Bush and Gorbachev hold summit in Washington, D.C.
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The U.S.-led multinational force ends Iraqi occupation of Kuwait.
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The War on Terror a.k.a. Global War on Terrorism, is a metaphor of war referring to the international military campaign that began after the 9/11 attacks on the U.S.