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American troops help defend South Korea
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American troops help defend South Korea
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United States sponsored invasion of Cuba fails
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The United States build-up of troops in Vietnam
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United States 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
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The Paris Peace Accords are signed, ending U.S. involvement in Vietnam War
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OPEC places an embargo on oil to U.S. because of the nation's support for Israel in October War
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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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President Jimmy Carter sponsors peace talks between Egypt and Israel.
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U.S. establishes full diplomatic relations with China.
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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 Reagan orders invasion of Grenada after a Marxist revolution in that Caribbean nation.
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American public learns that U.S. secretly sold weapons to Iran in hopes of gaining release of the seven American hostages in Lebanon
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U.S. invades Panama and captures Manuel Noriega
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Bush and Gorbachev hold summit in Washington
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U.S. led multinational force ends Iraqi occupations of Kuwait
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The war on Terror
