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Korean War
American troops help defend South Korea -
Bay of Pigs
U.S. sponsored invastion of Cuba fails -
Cuban Missile Crisis
U.S. forces Soviet Union to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba -
US build of of Troops
Vietnam War -
SALT
President Richard Nixon visits China and Soviet Union. Nixon and Brezhnev sign first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty -
Peace Accords
Paris Peace Accords are signed, ending U.S.. involvement in Vietnam War -
OPEC
OPEC places an embargo on oil to U.S. because of the nation's support for Israel in October War -
Canal Zone
U.S. signs treaty agreeing to return Canal Zone and control of canal to Panama by 1999 -
Camp David Accords
President Jimmy Carter sponsors peace talks between Egypt and Israel -
China
U.S. establishes full diplomatic relations with China -
SALT II
In Response to Soviet incasion of Afghanistan, U.S. places an embargo on sales of American grain to Soviet Union, boycotts Moscow Olympic Games, and delays completion of SALT II -
Grenada
President Ronald Reagan orders invasion of Grenada after a Marxist revolution in the Caribbean nation -
Iran Weapons Deal
American public learns that U.S. secretly sold weapons to Iran in hopes of gaining release of American Hostages in Lebanon -
Invasion
U.S. invades Panama and captures Manuel Noriega -
Summit
Bush and Gorbachev hold summit in Washington, D.C. -
Persian Gulf War
U.S. led multinational force ends Iraqi occupation of Kuwait -
Attack on the U.S.
The War on Terror
