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North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam. The capture of Saigon by the North Vietnamese led to the whole country becoming Communist
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Carter believed that American power should be exercised sparingly and that the United States should avoid military interventions as much as possible.
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On January 1, 1979, the two counties officially established diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level. The United States announced that it would sever its “diplomatic relations” with Taiwan, withdraw U.S. military forces from Taiwan, and terminate the Mutual Defense Treaty.
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A group of Iranian students and militants stormed the American embassy and took 53 Americans hostage to show their support for the Iranian Revolution.
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the USA boycotted the summer Olympics held in Moscow in protest at the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
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The Iranian hostage crisis ended 444 days after it began. after Ronald Reagan’s inauguration as the 40th president of the United States, the 52 U.S. captives held at the U.S. embassy in Teheran, Iran, are released
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The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union.also known as Star Wars...
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Russia and 13 other countries boycotted the summer Olympics held in Los Angeles in retaliation for the US boycott of 1980.
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East Germany allows unrestricted migration to West Germany
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The Velvet Revolution, also known as the Gentle Revolution, was a series of peaceful protests in Czechoslovakia that led to the overthrow of the Communist government.
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The Warsaw Pact which allied Communist countries was ended
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Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state.