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Relations between the United Sates and the USSR improved remarkably after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in Moscow in Moscow in 1985
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President Richard Nixon flew to Beijing in 1972 to begin a new era in American-Chinese relations.
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In 1969, President Richard Nixon began what he called the "Vietnamiztion" of the war. Over the next four years, the United States gradually pulled troops out of combat. Finally, two sides reached a cease-fire agreement in early 1973, and United Sates withdrew its last units.
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The United States began to counter the aggressive actions of the Soviet Union in the early months of 1947. Both Greece and Turkey were in danger of falling under Soviet control.
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Germany's submarine campaign against American shipping in the North Atlantic forced the United States out of its isolationist cocoon in 1917.
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In 1903, Panama revolted and became independent of Colombia, with America's blessing.
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In 1899, Secretary of State John Hay announced this country's insistence on an Open Door policy in China.
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James Monroe Gave the policy of isolationism a clearer shape in 1823. In a historic message to Congress, he proclaimed what has been known ever since as the Monroe Doctrine.
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Following its victory in the Revolutionary War, the United States began to expand across the continent almost at once. The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 doubled the nation's size in a single stroke and the Florida Purchase Treaty in 1819 completed its expansion to the south
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The United Nations created Israel as an independent state on May 14, 1948, and the United States recognized the new Jewish state with a matter of minutes.
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The Korean War began on June 25, 1950. Communist North Korea (the People's Democratic Republic of Korea) attacked South Korea (the UN-sponsored Republic of Korea). Cease-fire negotiations began in July 1951, but fighting continued until an armistice was signed was signed on July 27, 1953.
