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American troops help South Korea defend North Korea
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U.S. sponsered invasion of Cuba fails
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U.S. forces Soviet Union to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba
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President Richard Nixon visits china and Soviet Union. Nixon and Brezhnev sign first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
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U.S. involvement ended in Vietnam War!
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OPEC places an embargo on oil to the U.S. because of the U.S.'s support for Israel in the October war.
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U.S. signs treaty agreeing to return Canal Zone and control of canal to Panama by 1999
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President Jimmy Carter sponsors peace talks between Egypt and Isreal
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U.S. establishes 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 Olympic Games, and delays competition 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 U.S. secretly sold weapons to Iran in hopes to gain release of American Hostages in Lebanon
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Eastern Germany citizens permitted to leave and cross the Berlin wall.
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U.S. invades Panama and captures Manuel Noriega
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Bush and Gorbachev hold summit in Washington D.C. to discuss peace as Russian power declined.
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U.S led multinational force ends Iraqi occupation of Kuwait
