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Korean War
War between North and South Korea.The United Sates fought for the South and China fought for the North. -
Bay Of Pigs
A failed military invasion of Cuba, sponored by the United States. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Also known as the October crisis, missile crisis, or the missile scare was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba. -
SALT
President Richard Nixon visits China and the Soviet Union. Nixon and Brezhnev sign first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT). Limited the number of nuclear missiles in their arsenals. -
Paris Peace Accords
Intended to establish peace in Vietnam and an end to the Vietnam War. Ended direct U.S. military combat, and temporarily stopped the fighting between North and South Vietnam. -
OPEC Places Embargo on Oil to U.S.
Arab oil producers declared an embargo that drastically limited the shipment of oil to the United States. These producers, members of a cartel known as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), enforced the embargo in response to the Yom Kippur War between Egypt and Israel. -
Panama Canal Treaty
One of President Jimmy Carter’s greatest accomplishments was negotiating the Torrijos-Carter Treaties, which were ratified by the U.S. Senate in 1978. These treaties gave the nation of Panama eventual control of the Panama Canal. -
Camp David Accords
President Jimmy Carter sponsors peace talks between Egypt and Israel. Signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem. -
U.S. Diplomatic Relation with China
The 2 countries officially established diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level. The United States announced that it would sever its “diplomatic relations” with Taiwan, withdraw U.S. military forces from Taiwan, and terminate the Mutual Defense Treaty. -
Invasion of Grenada
American forces refuelled and departed from the Grantley Adams International Airport on the nearby Caribbean island of Barbados before daybreak en route to Grenada. It was the first major operation conducted by the U.S. military since the Vietnam War. -
Iran Weapons Deal
An agreement between Iran, the United States, Germany, Great Britain, China, Russia and France that reduces international economic sanctions against Iran in exchange for that nation ending its pursuit of nuclear weapons. Iran is required over the next 10-15 years to reduce its stockpile of enriched uranium and the number of centrifuges it has to produce the uranium – a key component of a nuclear weapon. -
Invasion of Panama
The United States broke both international law and its own government policies by invading Panama in order to bring its President Manuel Noriega to justice for drug trafficking. -
Bush and Gorbachev hold Summit in Washington D.C.
The summit meeting centered on the issue of Germany and its place in a changing Europe. When Gorbachev arrived for this second summit meeting with President Bush, his situation in the Soviet Union was perilous. The Soviet economy, despite Gorbachev’s many attempts at reform, was rapidly reaching a crisis point. Russia’s control over its satellites in Eastern Europe was quickly eroding, and even Russian republics such as Lithuania were pursuing paths of independence. -
Persian Gulf War
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion and occupation of neighboring Kuwait in early August 1990. Alarmed by these actions, fellow Arab powers such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt called on the United States and other Western nations to intervene. Hussein defied United Nations Security Council demands to withdraw from Kuwait by mid-January 1991, and the Persian Gulf War began with a massive U.S.-led air offensive known as Operation Desert Storm. -
Attack on The U.S.
The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001
