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American troops help defend Suth Korea
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US sponsored invasion of Cuba fails
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US forces Soviet Union to remove nuclear missles from Cuba
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US build-up of troops in Vietnam War
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President Richard Nixon visits China and Soviet Union. Nixon and Brezhnev sigh first Stratigic Arms Limitaion Treaty (SALT)
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Paris peace accords are signed, ending US involvement in Vietnam War
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places an embargo on oil to US because of the nation'ssupport for Israel in October War
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US sighns treaty agreeing to return Canal Zone and contol canal to Panama by 1999
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President Jimmy Carter sponsors peace talks between Egypt and Israel
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US establishes full diplomatic relations with China
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in response to Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, US 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 US secrretly sold weapons to Iran in hopes of gaining release of American hostages in Lebanon
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US invades Panama and captures Manuel Noriega
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Bush and Gorbachev hold summit in Washington DC
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US led multinational force ends Iraqi occupation of Kuwait
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The war on terror
