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American troops help defend South Korea
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U.S.-sponsored invasion of Cuba fails
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U.S. build-up of troops in Vietnam War
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U.S. forces Soviet Union to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba
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President Richard Nixon visits China and Soviet Union. Nixon and Brezhnev sign first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT).
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Paris Peace Accords are signed, ending U.S. involvement in Vietnam. OPEC places an embargo on oil to U.S. because of the nation's support for Israel in October War.
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President Jimmy Carter sponsors peace talks between Israel and Egypt
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U.S. establishes full diplomatic relations with China In response to Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, U.S. places an embargo on sales of American grain to Soviet Union, boycotts Moscow Olympic Games, and delays completion of SALT II.
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President Ronald Raegan orders invasion of Grenada after a Marxist revolution in the Caribbean nation
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American public learns that U.S. secretly sold weapons to Iran in hopes of gaining release of American hostages in Lebanon
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Bush and Gorbachev hold summit in Washington D.C
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U.S. invades Panama and captures Manuel Noriega
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U.S.-led multinational force ends Iraqi occupation of Kuwait
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U.S. signs treaty agreeing to return Canal Zone and control of canal to Panama by 1999
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War on Terror
