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1950
General Douglas MacArthur plans to push the North Korean out of South Korea -
1960
Bay of Pigs invasion with the U.S training Cuban rebels to overthrow Castro -
1960
Kennedy sends troops to Vietnam to fight the communist forces -
1960
Cuban Missile Crisis, Cuba asked for Soviet help leading to the Soviets putting missiles in Cuba -
1960
Lyndon Johnson orders airstrikes in North Vietnam due to Vietnamese torpedo boats firing upon American destroyer -
1970
Nixon reaches out and establishes diplomatic relations with China -
1970
The Camp David Accords are placed to end the Israelian-Egyptian conflict by the Carter administration -
1980
Iran-Contra affair where the U.S was to exposed to selling weapons to Iran -
1980
Reagan goes to the Soviet Union to talk to Gorbachev as well as addressing students at Moscow State University -
1990
Operation Desert Storm, U.S ground troops were sent to Kuwait to drive out the Iraqis -
2000
Bush sends troops to Afghanistan due to the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center -
2000
Bush sends troops to Iraq to bring down Saddam Hussein from power and his WMD