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Korean War
American troops help defend South Korea -
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Korean War ends
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U.S. buildup of troops in Vietnam War
U.S. sends more soldiers to Vietnam -
Bay of Pigs
U.S. sponsored invasion of Cuba fails -
Cuban Missile Crisis
U.S. forces Soviet Union to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba -
President Nixon visits China and Soviet Union
Nixon and Brezhnev sign the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) -
Paris Peace Accords
Document ending U.S. involvement in Vietnam War -
OPEC Embargo
OPEC places an embargo on oil to U.S. because of Israeli support -
End of Vietnam War
War in Vietnam ends with American loss -
Torrijos-Carter Treaties
U.S. signs treaty to return Canal Zone and contol of Panama by 1999 -
Camp David Accords
President Jimmy Carter sponsors peace talks between Israel and Egypt -
China-United States Relations
U.S. establishes full diplomatic relations with China -
Soviet-Afghan War Embargos
U.S. places an embargo on sales of American grain to Soviet Union, boycotts Moscow Olympic Games, and delays completion of SALT II -
Invasion of Grenada
President 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 -
U.S. Invasion of Panama
U.S. invades Panama and captures Manuel Noriega -
Chemical Weapons Accord
Bush and Gorbachev hold summit in Washington D.C. -
Persian-Gulf War
U.S. led multinational force ends Iraqi occupation in Kuwait -
9/11 Terrorist Attacks
Attack on U.S. causes America to declare War on Terror