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  American assisted South Korea in fighting North Korea trying to containing communism from spreading to more countries
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  America's secret mission to over through Fidel Castro
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  Tensions break and the U.S sends in troops to try and diffuse the situation.
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  The Soviet Union was putting medium to intermediate range missiles in Cuba. The United States demanded that they be removed.
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  Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, Nixon and Brezhnev sign agreement of nuclear arms control
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  OPEC places an embargo on oil the United States due to their support to Israel in the October War
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  Agreement signed ending the U.S involvement in The Vietnam War
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  Treaty that the U.S signs agreeing to return the canal zones and control to Panama
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  Israeli and Egyptian sign peace treaty. Jimmy Carter was witness
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  The United States establish full diplomatic relations with China
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  In response to Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, U.S places an embargo on sales of American grain to Soviet Union, boycotts Moscow Olympics Games, and delays completion of SALT II
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  President Ronald Regan orders that the United States invades Grenada after Marxist revolution
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  America learned that the U.S secretly sold weapons to Iran in hopes to get hostages free
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  The United States invades Panama and captures Manuel Noriega
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  The war was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of 34 nations mandated by the United Nations and led by the United States.
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  Terrorists boarded planes and over through them to crash into major buildings in the United States. Most well know is the twin towers going down
