The US in World Affairs

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
06/25/1950	Korean War	American troops help defend South Korea.
04/17/1961	Bay of Pigs	US sponsored invasion of Cuba fails.
08/21/1962	Cuban Missile Crisis	US forced Soviet Union to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba.
04/30/1968	US build-up troops in Vietnam War	US build up troops in Vietnam War.
02/21/1972	President Richard Nixon Visits China and Soviet Union	Nixon and Brezhnev sign first Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty (SALT I).
09/03/1973	Paris Peace Accords are signed	ending US involvement in Vietnam War.
09/07/1977	US signs treaty agreeing to return Canal Zone	and control of canal to Panama by 1999
09/17/1978	Camp David Accords	President Jimmy Carter sponsors peace talks between Egypt and israel.
01/01/1979	US establishes full diplomatic relations with China
01/17/1979	Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan	In response to Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, US places an embargo on sales of American grain to Soviet Union, boycotts Moscow Olympic Games, and delays completion of SALT II.
10/25/1983	President Ronald Reagan orders invasion of Grenada	after a Marxist revolution in the Caribbean nation
08/20/1986	Iran weapons deal	American public learns that US secretly sold weapons to iran in hopes of gaining release of American hostages in Lebanon.
12/20/1989	US invades Panama	and captures Manuel Noriega
04/06/1990	Bush and Gorbachev hold summit in Washington, D.C.
08/02/1991	Persian Gulf War	US led multinational force ends Iraqi occupation of Kuwait.
09/09/2001	The War on Terror	Attack on the US.
Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
06/25/1950 to 09/11/2001	The United States in World Affairs