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Korean War
A conflict between communist and non-communists forces in Korea from June 25,1950 to July 27,1953.In 1948 rival governments were established. North Korea invades South Korea. At the end of WWII, Korea was divided at the 38th parallel into Sovie (North Korean) and US (South Korean) zones of occupation. American troops help defend South Korea. When North korean forces invaded South Korea, the UN authorized member nations to aid South Korea. This war is sometimes called the "Forgotten War". -
Bay of Pigs
In 1961 1,500 Cuban exiles arrede and trained by the CIA tried to stage an invasion at Cuba's Bay of Pigs. On the Souther coast of cuba was a site,The Bay of Pig, a remote swampy area where a night landing might bring a force ashore against little resistance and help hide U.S. involvement. The small force was crushed by Fidel Castro. Presidet Kennedy authorized the invasion plan. Onced it failed he took responsibility for it. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A 1962 conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union resulting from the Soviet installation of nuclear missiles in Cuba. The Soviet goal was to prevent another U.S. planned invasion by allowing the Cubans to use the missiles if needed. An American spy plane took photos of a Soviet nuclear missile site being built in Cuba and President Kennedy planned his response, to blockade Cuba and threaten to invade unless the Soviets agreed to remove the missiles (they took the missiles away). -
Troops for Vietnam War
U.S. troops number peaks in 1968 due to President Johnson approving raising the max numbers of U.S. soldiers in the Vietnam War. There was about 549,500 U.S. soldiers. The U.S. spent about $77.4 billion(2012 about $517 billion) on the war. -
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT)
President Richard NIxon visits China and Soviet Union. Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev sign first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. A proposed agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union to limit ceratin types of nuclear arms production . -
Paris Peace Accords
A 1973 peace agreement between the United States, South Vietnam, North Vitnam, and the Vietcong that effectively ended the Vietnam War (and the U.S. involvment in the Vietnam War). Once the ceasefire was in effect, U.S. troops and other foreign soldiers would withdraw within 60 days. U.S. prisoners of war would be released and allowed to return back home. -
OPEC Embargo
1973 OAPEC (including the Arab members of OPEC,Egypt, Syria and Tunisia) proclaimed an oil embargo. Egypt, Syria, amd other Arab nations, launched a surprise attack on Israel on Yom Kippur (October War). Due to the fact that Isreal was outnumbered, the United States resupplied Israel and in response, OPEC decided to to place an embargo on the United States. This lasted until March 1974. -
Panama Canal Treaty
In 1977the U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed a treaty in which was agreed that the US returns 60% of the Canal Zone to Panama in 1979 (General Omar Torrijos). The canal and remaining territory (Canal Area), was returned to Panama on December 31, 1999. -
Camp David Accords
Under the Camp David Accords Israel agreed to return the Sinai to Egypt, . In a joint letter the two nations also agreed to negotiate Palestinian autonomy measures in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.The official agreement was signed on Mar. 26, 1979, in Washington, D.C. by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat, with U.S. President Jimmy Carter signing as a witness (he sponsors peace talks between Egypt and Israel). -
Sino-American Relations
In 1975, President Ford went to China and reaffirmed the U.S. interest in normalizing relations with Beijing. Shortly after taking office in 1977, President Carter again reaffirmed the interest expressed in the Shanghai Communique by President Ford. On December 15,1978 the United States and China announced that the two governments would establish diplomatic relations in January 1, 1979. -
Response of Soviet Invasion
The Soviet war that was fought by the Soviet Army and the Marxist-Leninist government of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan againsnt the Afghan Mujahideen guerrilla movement. In response to Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, U.S. (President Jimmy Carter) places an embargo on sales of American grain to Soviet Union, pressed for boycotts in Moscow Olympic Games, and delays completion of SALT II. The poor state of the economy (1980) contributed to Carter's electoral defeat by Ronald Reagan. -
Invasion of Grenada
The Invasion of Grenada, codenamed Operation Urgent Fury, was a U.S. invasion of Grenada (ordered by President Ronald Reagan after a Marxist revolutioni n that Caribbean nation) that resulted in a U.S. victory. U.S. overthrew the communist government for a pro-Western one. -
Iron-Contra Affair
The Iron-Contra Affair was a political scandal in the United States where the American public learns that the U.S. secretly sold weapons to Iran in hopes of gaining release of American hostages in Lebanon. This affair began with Senior Reagan administration officials secretly facilitatubg the sale of arms to Iran in order to free 7 American hostages that were being held by a group with Iranian ties connected to the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution. -
U.S. Invades Panama
This invasion was codenamed operation Just Cause and was during the administration of U.S. President George H. W. Bush. The goals of this invasion was to capture Manuel Noriega(Panamanian leader) and the establishment of a democratic government. This surprise attack, killed thousands of Panamanians. The U.S. hit 27 targets in densley populated areas. Once captured Manuel Noriega was sentenced to 40 years in a US federal prison for drug racketeering, money laundering and drug trafficing. -
Bush and Gorbachev
From December 2-3 President Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev (Soviet President) held their first meeting of Bush's presidency in theValetta, Malta, in ordeer to discuss nuclear disarmament and the strengthening of Soviet American trade relations. Both leaders announced that the Cold War is effectively over. -
Persian Gulf War
The Persian Gulf War was also codenamed Operation Desert Storm.On Agugust 2,1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait.Saddam Hussein( Iraq's leader) sought to take Kuwait's rich oil deposits. President Bush made it clear that he would not tolerate Iraq's aggresion,and worked to build an international coalition and backed a UN resolution that demanded the Iraqi troops to withdraw. US led multinational force ends Iraqi occupation of Kuwait. -
Attack on the U.S.
19 terrorists from group al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets.The hijackers flew 2 planes(American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175) into the North and South towers of the World Trade Center (Twin Towers),both towers collapsed within 2 hours. The hijackers also crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and intended to pilot the fourth hijacked jet, United Airlines, into the U.S. Capitol Building, but the plane crashed in Pennsylvania.
