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THE US IN WORLD AFFAIRS

By skilonzo
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    Korean War

    American troops help defend South Korea.
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    Bay of Pigs

    U.S.-sponsored invasion of Cuba fails
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    Cuban Missile Crisis

    U.S. forces Soviet Union to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba. U.S. build-up of troops in Vietnam War.
  • Nixon and Brezhnev sign SALT

    Nixon and Brezhnev sign SALT

    President Nixon visits China and Soviet Union.
  • Paris Peace Accords are signed

    Paris Peace Accords are signed

    Ends U.S. involvement in Vietnam War.
  • OPEC places embargo on oil to the U.S.

    OPEC places embargo on oil to the U.S.

    This was because of the nations support for Israel in the October War

  • U.S. signs treaty

    U.S. signs treaty agreeing to return Canal Zone and control of the Panama Canal by 1999.
  • Camp David Accords

    Camp David Accords

    President Jimmy Carter sponsors peace talks between Egypt and Israel.

  • Bush and Gorbachev hold summit in Washington D.C.

  • U.S establishes full diplomatic relations with China

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    U.S. responds to the 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.

  • President Reagan orders invasion of Grenada

    this is after a Marxist revolution in that Caribbean nation

  • Iran Weapons Deal

    American public learns that the U.S. secretly sold weapons in Iran in hopes of gaining release of American hostages in Lebanon
  • U.S. invades Panama and captures Manuel Noriega

    U.S. invades Panama and captures Manuel Noriega

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    Persian Gulf War

    U.S.-led multinational force ends Iraqi occupation in Kuwait
  • Attack on the U.S.

    Attack on the U.S.

    the war on terror