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Korean War
American troops help defend South Korea -
Bay of Pigs
U.S sponsored invasion of Cuba fails -
Cuban Missile Crisis
U.S forces Soviet Union to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba. -
Vietnam War build up
U.S build up of troops in Vietnam War -
Nixon visits China
President Richard Nixon visits China and Soviet Union. Nixon and Brezhnev sign forst Startegic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) -
Paris Peace Accords
Paris Peace Accords are signed, ending the US involvement in the Vietnam War -
OPEC
OPEC places an embargo on oil to US becasue of the nation's support for Israel in October War -
US signs Treaty
U.S signs a 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 Israel -
U.S and China
U.S establishes full diplomatic relations with China -
US and Soviet Union
In response to Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, U.S places an embargo on sales of American grain to Soviet Union, boycotts Moscow Olympic Games, adn delays completion of SALT II -
President Reagan
President Ronald Reagan orders invasion of Grenada after a Marxist revolution in that Carribean nation -
Iran Weapons Deal
American public learns that U.S secretly sold waepons to Iran in hopes of gaining release of the American hostages in Lebanon -
U.S invades Panama
U.S invades Panama and captures Manuel Noriega -
Bush and Gorbachev
Bush and Gorbechev hold summit in Washington D.C -
Persian Gulf War
U.S led multinational force, ends Iraqi occupation of Kuwait -
Terrorist Attacks on America
Attack on the U.S which begins the war on terror