The United States in World Affairs

By rwiggins1234

  • Korean War

    American troops help defend South Korea
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    UNITED STATES WORLD AFFAIRS

  • Korean War ends

  • U.S. buildup of troops in Vietnam War

    U.S. sends more soldiers to Vietnam

  • Bay of Pigs

    U.S. sponsored invasion of Cuba fails

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    U.S. forces Soviet Union to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba

  • President Nixon visits China and Soviet Union

    Nixon and Brezhnev sign the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I)

  • Paris Peace Accords

    Document ending U.S. involvement in Vietnam War

  • OPEC Embargo

    OPEC places an embargo on oil to U.S. because of Israeli support

  • End of Vietnam War

    War in Vietnam ends with American loss

  • Torrijos-Carter Treaties

    U.S. signs treaty to return Canal Zone and contol of Panama by 1999

  • Camp David Accords

    President Jimmy Carter sponsors peace talks between Israel and Egypt

  • China-United States Relations

    U.S. establishes full diplomatic relations with China

  • Soviet-Afghan War Embargos

    U.S. places an embargo on sales of American grain to Soviet Union, boycotts Moscow Olympic Games, and delays completion of SALT II

  • Invasion of Grenada

    President Reagan orders invasion of Grenada after a Marxist revolution in that Caribbean 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

  • Chemical Weapons Accord

    Bush and Gorbachev hold summit in Washington D.C.

  • Persian-Gulf War

    U.S. led multinational force ends Iraqi occupation in Kuwait

  • 9/11 Terrorist Attacks

    Attack on U.S. causes America to declare War on Terror