Usa

The united states in world affairs

  • Korean War

    Korean War

    American assisted South Korea in fighting North Korea trying to containing communism from spreading to more countries
  • The Bay of Pigs

    The Bay of Pigs

    America's secret mission to over through Fidel Castro
  • U.S troops in Vietnam

    U.S troops in Vietnam

    Tensions break and the U.S sends in troops to try and diffuse the situation.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    The Soviet Union was putting medium to intermediate range missiles in Cuba. The United States demanded that they be removed.
  • SALT

    SALT

    Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, Nixon and Brezhnev sign agreement of nuclear arms control
  • OPEC

    OPEC

    OPEC places an embargo on oil the United States due to their support to Israel in the October War
  • Paris Peace Accords

    Paris Peace Accords

    Agreement signed ending the U.S involvement in The Vietnam War
  • The Canal Zone

    The Canal Zone

    Treaty that the U.S signs agreeing to return the canal zones and control to Panama
  • camp david accords

    camp david accords

    Israeli and Egyptian sign peace treaty. Jimmy Carter was witness
  • U.S  - China relations

    U.S - China relations

    The United States establish full diplomatic relations with China
  • U.S embargo

    U.S embargo

    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
  • Grenada

    Grenada

    President Ronald Regan orders that the United States invades Grenada after Marxist revolution
  • Iran weapons deal

    Iran weapons deal

    America learned that the U.S secretly sold weapons to Iran in hopes to get hostages free
  • Invasion of Panama

    Invasion of Panama

    The United States invades Panama and captures Manuel Noriega
  • Persian Gulf War

    Persian Gulf War

    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.
  • 9/11

    9/11

    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