U.S World Affairs

Korean War

Jun 25, 1950

American Troops help defend South Korea

Bay of Pigs

Apr 17, 1961

U.S sponsored invasion of Cuba Falls

Cuban Missile Crisis

Oct 14, 1962

U.S forces Soviet Union to remove nuclear missles from Cuba

U.S builds up troops for Vietnam war

Jan 1, 1968

Nixon Visitis China

Jan 1, 1972

President Richard Nixon visits China and Soviviet Union. Nixon and Brezhnev sign first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT)

U.S leaves Vietnam War

Jan 1, 1973

Paris Peace Accords are signed

OPEC places embargo on oil

Jan 1, 1973

OPEC places embargo on oil to the US because of the nations support for isreal in the october war

Panama Canal control turnover

Jan 1, 1977

U.S signs treaty agreeing to return Canal Zone and control of thr canal to Panama by 1999.

Camp David Accords

Jan 1, 1978

President Jimmy Carter sponsers peace talks between Egypt and Israel

U.S establishes diplomatic relations with china

Jan 1, 1979

Invasion of Grenada

Jan 1, 1983

President Ronald Reagan orders invasion of Grenada after a Marxist revolution in that Carribean Nation

Iran Weapons Deal

Jan 1, 1986

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

Jan 1, 1989

U.S invaes Panama and captures Manuel Noriega

Bush and Gorbachev hold summit in Washingto D.C

Jan 1, 1990

Persian Gulf War

Jan 1, 1991

U.S led multinational fprce ends Iraqi occupation of Kuwait

Terrorist Attacks on the U.S

Sep 9, 2001

The War of Terror

U.S responds to Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan

May 6, 2013

U.S places an embargo on sales of American grain to Soviet Union, boycotts Moscow olympic games, and delays completeion of SALT II.