U.S. in World Affairs Timeline

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  • Korean War

    Korean War
    American Troops help defend South Korea. The North Koreans government began to invade South Korea and try to take over. So the US stepped in to help the fight against Communism. Lasted for 3 years.

  • US build up of Troops in the Vietnam War

    US build up of Troops in the Vietnam War
    The U.S. government thought its involvement in the war as a way to help prevent a communist takeover in South Vietnam. This was part of the domino theory of a wider containment policy, with the stated aim of stopping the spread of communism worldwide. Ended April 30th 1975.

  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs
    U.S. military sponsored invasion of Cuba fails.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    U.S. forces Soviet Union to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba. Lasted for 13 days and was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. All about American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. Where the cold war almost turned into a nuclear war.

  • SALT

    SALT
    President Richard Nixon Visits China and Soviet Union. Nixon and Brezhnev sign first strategic Arms Limitation Treaty(SALT)

  • Paris Peace Accords are Signed

    Paris Peace Accords are Signed
    Paris Peace Accords are signed, ending the US involvement in the Vietnam War.

  • OPEC Places an Embargo

    OPEC Places an Embargo
    OPEC places an embargo on oil to US because of the nation's support for Israel in October War.

  • Panama Canal

    Panama Canal
    US signs treaty agreeing to return Canal Zone and control of canal to Panama by 1999.

  • Camp David Accords

    Camp David Accords
    President Jimmy Carter sponsors peace talks between Egypt and Israel. And were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at the White House.

  • China-US Relations

    China-US Relations
    US established full diplomatic relations with China. The two governments established diplomatic relations.

  • Invasion of Grenada

    Invasion of Grenada
    President Ronald Reagan ordes invasion of Grenada after a Marxist revolution in that Caribbean nation.

  • U.S. invades Panama

    U.S. invades Panama
    U.S. invades Panama and captures Manuel Noriega.

  • Bush and Gorbachev

    Bush and Gorbachev hold summit in Washington D.C.

  • Persian Gulf War

    Persian Gulf War
    U.S. led multinational force ends Iraqi occupation of Kuwait.

  • 9/11

    9/11
    The attack of 9/11 in New York City. Was a part of the war on terror.