The United States in World Affairs

  • Korean War

    Korean War

    American Troops help defend South Korea
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    US Involvement in World Affairs

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  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs

    US sponsored invasion of Cuba fails
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    US frces Soviet Unon t remove nuclear missiles from Cuba
  • Vietnam

    Vietnam

    US build-up troops in Vietnam War
  • SALT

    SALT

    President Nixon visits China and the Soviet Union to sign the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
  • Paris Peace Accords

    Paris Peace Accords

    Paris Peace Accords are signed, endngUS involvement in Vietnam War
  • OPEC

    OPEC

    OPEC Places an embargo on oil to US becaue of the nation's support for Israel in October War
  • Panama Canal

    Panama Canal

    US signs treaty to return the canal zone and control of the canal to Panama
  • Camp David

    Camp David

    President Carter sponsors peace talks between Isreal and Egypt
  • China

    China

    US establishes full diplomatic relationship with China
  • Soviet Embargos

    Soviet Embargos

    In response to an Afghanistan invasion, US places an embargo on American grain, boycotts the Olympics, and delays the completion of SALT II
  • Invasion of Grenada

    Invasion of Grenada

    President Reagan orders invasion after a Marxist revolution in that Caribbean nation
  • Iran Weapons Deal

    Iran Weapons Deal

    American public learns that the US secretly sold weapons to Iran in hopes of gaining release of hostages
  • Invasion of Panama

    Invasion of Panama

    US invades Panama and captures Manuel Noriega
  • DC Summit

    DC Summit

    Bush and Gorbachev hold Summit in Washington, DC
  • Persian Gulf War

    Persian Gulf War

    US led multinational force ends Iraqi occupation in Kuwait