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Korean War 1950-1953
American troops help defend South Korea from the communist power of North Korea, being assisted by the Soviet Union and China. The war lasted 3 years and ended with a division near the original boundaries. North Korea is still a communist nation. -
Bay of Pigs
U.S. invasion of Cuba as part of their containment effort. It was a failed invasion. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba. U.S. managed to handle the situation without causing provocation of the foreign nations. -
Nixon visits China and Soviet Union
President Nixon and Brezhnev sign the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) -
Paris Peace Accords
The Paris Peace Accords are signed, leading to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War coming to an end. -
OPEC Embargo
The organziation of OPEC places and embargo on oil to the U.S. because of the nation's support for Israel in October War. -
Unknown Date - U.S. Canal Zone Treaty
U.S. signs treaty agreeing to return CanalZone and control of the Panama Canal to Panama by the year 1999. -
Camp David Accords
The Camp David Accords were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David. The two framework agreements were signed at the White House, and were witnessed by United States President Jimmy Carter. -
Unknown Date - U.S. relations with China
The U.S. establishes full diplomatic relations with China. -
U.S. Embargo
U.S. places an embargo on sales of American grain to Soviet Union, boycotts Moscow Olympic Games, and delays compleytion of SALT II. -
Reagan invades Grenada
Reagan ordered U.S. troops to invade Grenada, a Caribbean island nation, after he determined that its turbulent Marxist government posed a threat to the almost 1,000 Americans on the island -
Iran Weapons Deal
American Public learns that U.S. secretly sold weapons to Iran in hopes of gaining a release of American hostages in Lebanon. -
U.S. invades Panama
The United States invades Panama and captures Manuel Noriega. -
Bush and Gorbachev
President George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev wound up a summit meeting in Washington without reaching an agreement over German reunification. The issue of German reunification dominated the three-day exchange, which also paved the way for a pact between the two superpowers to halt production of chemical weapons. -
Persian Gulf War
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion and occupation of neighboring Kuwait in early August 1990. Alarmed by these actions, fellow Arab powers such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt called on the United States and other Western nations to intervene. -
Attack on the U.S.
The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States. They attacked large monuments like both twin towers, and the Pentagon.