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Korean War
American assisted South Korea in fighting North Korea trying to containing communism from spreading to more countries -
The Bay of Pigs
America's secret mission to over through Fidel Castro -
U.S troops in Vietnam
Tensions break and the U.S sends in troops to try and diffuse the situation. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Soviet Union was putting medium to intermediate range missiles in Cuba. The United States demanded that they be removed. -
SALT
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, Nixon and Brezhnev sign agreement of nuclear arms control -
OPEC
OPEC places an embargo on oil the United States due to their support to Israel in the October War -
Paris Peace Accords
Agreement signed ending the U.S involvement in The Vietnam War -
The Canal Zone
Treaty that the U.S signs agreeing to return the canal zones and control to Panama -
camp david accords
Israeli and Egyptian sign peace treaty. Jimmy Carter was witness -
U.S - China relations
The United States establish full diplomatic relations with China -
U.S embargo
In response to Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, U.S places an embargo on sales of American grain to Soviet Union, boycotts Moscow Olympics Games, and delays completion of SALT II -
Grenada
President Ronald Regan orders that the United States invades Grenada after Marxist revolution -
Iran weapons deal
America learned that the U.S secretly sold weapons to Iran in hopes to get hostages free -
Invasion of Panama
The United States invades Panama and captures Manuel Noriega -
Persian Gulf War
The war was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of 34 nations mandated by the United Nations and led by the United States. -
9/11
Terrorists boarded planes and over through them to crash into major buildings in the United States. Most well know is the twin towers going down
