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Korean War
American Troops help defend South Korea -
Bay of Pigs
U.S sponsored invasion of Cuba Falls -
Cuban Missile Crisis
U.S forces Soviet Union to remove nuclear missles from Cuba -
U.S builds up troops for Vietnam war
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Nixon Visitis China
President Richard Nixon visits China and Soviviet Union. Nixon and Brezhnev sign first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) -
U.S leaves Vietnam War
Paris Peace Accords are signed -
OPEC places embargo on oil
OPEC places embargo on oil to the US because of the nations support for isreal in the october war -
Panama Canal control turnover
U.S signs treaty agreeing to return Canal Zone and control of thr canal to Panama by 1999. -
Camp David Accords
President Jimmy Carter sponsers peace talks between Egypt and Israel -
U.S establishes diplomatic relations with china
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Invasion of Grenada
President Ronald Reagan orders invasion of Grenada after a Marxist revolution in that Carribean Nation -
Iran Weapons Deal
America 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 invaes Panama and captures Manuel Noriega -
Bush and Gorbachev hold summit in Washingto D.C
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Persian Gulf War
U.S led multinational fprce ends Iraqi occupation of Kuwait -
Terrorist Attacks on the U.S
The War of Terror -
U.S responds to Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan
U.S places an embargo on sales of American grain to Soviet Union, boycotts Moscow olympic games, and delays completeion of SALT II.
