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Korean War
American troops help South Korea defend North Korea -
Bay of Pigs
U.S. sponsered invasion of Cuba fails -
Cuban Missile Crisis
U.S. forces Soviet Union to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba -
SALT
President Richard Nixon visits china and Soviet Union. Nixon and Brezhnev sign first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty -
Paris Peace Accords
U.S. involvement ended in Vietnam War! -
OPEC embargo
OPEC places an embargo on oil to the U.S. because of the U.S.'s support for Israel in the October war. -
Panama Canal Control
U.S. signs treaty agreeing to return Canal Zone and control of canal to Panama by 1999 -
Camp David Accords
President Jimmy Carter sponsors peace talks between Egypt and Isreal -
China Peace
U.S. establishes full diplomatic relations with China -
U.S. Embargo of Grain
In response to Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, U.S. places an embargo on sales of American grain to Soviet Union , Boycotts Moscow Olympic Games, and delays competition of SALT II. -
Grenada Invasion
President Ronald 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 to gain release of American Hostages in Lebanon -
Fall of Berlin Wall
Eastern Germany citizens permitted to leave and cross the Berlin wall. -
U.S. Invades Panama
U.S. invades Panama and captures Manuel Noriega -
D.C. summit
Bush and Gorbachev hold summit in Washington D.C. to discuss peace as Russian power declined. -
Persian Gulf War
U.S led multinational force ends Iraqi occupation of Kuwait
