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Korean War
American Troops help defend South Korea -
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US Involvement in World Affairs
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Bay of Pigs
US sponsored invasion of Cuba fails -
Cuban Missile Crisis
US frces Soviet Unon t remove nuclear missiles from Cuba -
Vietnam
US build-up troops in Vietnam War -
SALT
President Nixon visits China and the Soviet Union to sign the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty -
Paris Peace Accords
Paris Peace Accords are signed, endngUS involvement in Vietnam War -
OPEC
OPEC Places an embargo on oil to US becaue of the nation's support for Israel in October War -
Panama Canal
US signs treaty to return the canal zone and control of the canal to Panama -
Camp David
President Carter sponsors peace talks between Isreal and Egypt -
China
US establishes full diplomatic relationship with China -
Soviet Embargos
In response to an Afghanistan invasion, US places an embargo on American grain, boycotts the Olympics, and delays the completion of SALT II -
Invasion of Grenada
President Reagan orders invasion after a Marxist revolution in that Caribbean nation -
Iran Weapons Deal
American public learns that the US secretly sold weapons to Iran in hopes of gaining release of hostages -
Invasion of Panama
US invades Panama and captures Manuel Noriega -
DC Summit
Bush and Gorbachev hold Summit in Washington, DC -
Persian Gulf War
US led multinational force ends Iraqi occupation in Kuwait
