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American troops help defend South Korea.
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US sponsored invasion of Cuba fails.
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US forced Soviet Union to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba.
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US build up troops in Vietnam War.
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Nixon and Brezhnev sign first Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty (SALT I).
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ending US involvement in Vietnam War.
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and control of canal to Panama by 1999
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President Jimmy Carter sponsors peace talks between Egypt and israel.
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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.
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after a Marxist revolution in the Caribbean nation
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American public learns that US secretly sold weapons to iran in hopes of gaining release of American hostages in Lebanon.
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and captures Manuel Noriega
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US led multinational force ends Iraqi occupation of Kuwait.
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Attack on the US.
