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Korean War
American troops help defend Suth Korea -
Bay of Pigs
US sponsored invasion of Cuba fails -
Cuban Missle Cisis
US forces Soviet Union to remove nuclear missles from Cuba -
Veitnam
US build-up of troops in Vietnam War -
SALT
President Richard Nixon visits China and Soviet Union. Nixon and Brezhnev sigh first Stratigic Arms Limitaion Treaty (SALT) -
End of Vietnam War
Paris peace accords are signed, ending US involvement in Vietnam War -
OPEC
places an embargo on oil to US because of the nation'ssupport for Israel in October War -
Panama
US sighns treaty agreeing to return Canal Zone and contol canal to Panama by 1999 -
Camp David
President Jimmy Carter sponsors peace talks between Egypt and Israel -
China
US establishes full diplomatic relations with China -
Soviet Union
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 -
Invasion of Grenada
President Ronald Reagan orders invasion of Grenada after a Marxist revolution in that Caribbean nation -
Iran Weapons Deal
American public learns that US secrretly sold weapons to Iran in hopes of gaining release of American hostages in Lebanon -
US Invades Panama
US invades Panama and captures Manuel Noriega -
Washington DC
Bush and Gorbachev hold summit in Washington DC -
Persian Gulf War
US led multinational force ends Iraqi occupation of Kuwait -
Attack on US
The war on terror
