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Korean War
American troops help defend South Korea. -
Vietnam War
U.S. build-up of troops in Vietnam -
Bay of Pigs
U.S. sponsored invasion of Cuba which fails -
Cuban Missile Crisis
U.S. forces Soviet Union to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba. -
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT)
President Richard Nixon visits China and Soviet Union. NIxon and Brezhnev sign first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty -
Paris Peace Accords
Signed which ends U.S. involvement in Vietnam War -
OPEC
OPEC places an embargo on oil to U.S. because of the nation's support for Israel in October War. -
Torrijos-Carter Treaties are signed
U.S. signs treaty agreeing to return Canal Zone and control of canal to Panama by 1999. -
Camp David Accords
President Jimmy Carter sponsors peace talks between Egypt and Israel -
Relations with China
U.S. establishes full diplomatic relations with China -
Moscow Olympic Games
In response to Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, U.S.places an embargo on sake of American grain to Soviet Union, boycotss Mosow Olympic Games, and delays completeion of SALT II. -
Invasion of Grenada
President Ronald Reagan orders the invasion of Grenada after a Marxist revolution in the Carribean nation. -
Iran Weapons Deal
American public learns that U.S. secretly sold weapons to Iran in hopes of gaining release of American hostages in Lebanon. -
U.S. invasion of Panama
U.S. invades Panama and captures Manuel Noriega -
Summit in D.C.
Bush and Gorbachev hold summit in Washington, D.C. -
Persian Gulf War
U.S. led multiational force ends Iraqi occupation of Kuwait. -
Attack on U.S.
The War on Terror starts
