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Korean War
American troops help defend South Korea. Also known as the forgotten war, South Korea was at war with Communist North Korea. The U.S helped the South in defeating the North. Now North and South Korea are divided between the 38th Parallel. -
Bay of Pigs
Bay of Pigs was a U.S sponsored invasion of Cuba that failed. CIA trained people to invade, but it wasn't enough. Kennedy refused to use the military in the evasion. -
U.S. Build-Up of Troops in Vietnam
Kennedy sent 5,000 troops and 50 fighter jets in response to communist attacks in Laos. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
U.S forces Soviet Union to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba. -
SALT
President Richard Nixon visits China and Soviet Union. Nixon and Brezhnev sign first Strategic Arms limitation Treaty. -
Paris Peace Accords
U.S. involvement comes to an end in the Vietnam war when the Paris Peace Accords. -
OPEC Oil Embargo
OPEC places an embargo on oil to U.S. because of the nation's support for Israel in October War. -
Panama Canal
U.S. signs treaty agreement 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. These were secret negotiations at Camp David -
China and the U.S.
U.S. established full diplomatic relations with China. -
Boycott USSR
In response to Soviet invasion of Afganistan, U.S. places an embargo on sales of American grain to Soviet Union, boycotts Moscow Olympic Games, and delays completion of SALT II. -
Invasion of Grenada
President Ronald Reagan orders invasion of Grenada after a Marxist revolution in that Caribbean nation. -
Iran Weapons Deal
American public learns that U.S. secretly sold weapons to Iran in hopes of gaining release of American hostages in Lebanon. -
U.S. Invades Panama
U.S. Invades Panama and captures Manuel Noriega. -
Bush and Gorbachev
Bush and Gorbachev hold summit in Washignton, D.C. -
Persian Gulf War
U.S. led multinational force ends Iraqi occupation of Kuwait. -
9/11
Muslim terrorist attack on the United States of America. Four passenger airliners are overtaken by terrorist. One crashes into the Pentagon and two other crash into World Trade Center.
