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Korean War
American troops help defend South Korea. -
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Bay of Pigs
U.S.-sponsored invasion of Cuba fails -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
U.S. forces Soviet Union to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba. U.S. build-up of troops in Vietnam War. -
Nixon and Brezhnev sign SALT
President Nixon visits China and Soviet Union. -
Paris Peace Accords are signed
Ends U.S. involvement in Vietnam War. -
OPEC places embargo on oil to the U.S.
This was because of the nations support for Israel in the October War -
U.S. signs treaty
U.S. signs treaty agreeing to return Canal Zone and control of the Panama Canal by 1999. -
Camp David Accords
President Jimmy Carter sponsors peace talks between Egypt and Israel. -
Bush and Gorbachev hold summit in Washington D.C.
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U.S establishes full diplomatic relations with China
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U.S. responds to the 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. -
President Reagan orders invasion of Grenada
this is after a Marxist revolution in that Caribbean nation -
Iran Weapons Deal
American public learns that the U.S. secretly sold weapons in Iran in hopes of gaining release of American hostages in Lebanon -
U.S. invades Panama and captures Manuel Noriega
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Persian Gulf War
U.S.-led multinational force ends Iraqi occupation in Kuwait -
Attack on the U.S.
the war on terror
