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American Troops help defend south korea from the communist north korea backed by the USSR.Eventually coming to a end at the 38th parellel.
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A failed invasion of communist cuba by U.S backed cuban refuges.
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When the USSR tried to place nuclear missiles in cuba the U.S forced them to remove the missiles.
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THe U.S started to place troops in vietnam due to the threat of communist north vietnam
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Nixon visited china and the Soviet Union.Nixon and Brezhnev signed SALT.Nixon also reconises China.
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The paris peace accords are signed by Nixon which ended U.S involvment in Vietnam.
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Because of the U.S support of Israel in the October War OPEC places a embargo on the U.S causing major shortages.
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JImmy carter signs a treaty agreeing to return the panama canal to panama by the year 2000.
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Jimmy Carter got Egypt and Israel to sign the camp david accords at the peace talks.
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UNder Jimmy Carter the U.S established full diplomatic relations with china.
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The U.S goverment placed embargos on sales of american grain to the Soviet Union,boycott the moscow games.and delayed SALT 2 because of the soviet invasion of Afganistan.
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After a communist revolution in Grenada Ronald Reagan order an invasion of Grenada.
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The American public finds out that the US gov sold weapons to iran in hopes that they would release American Hostages in Lebanon.
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The US invades panama and captures Manual Noriega to protect the panama canal.
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Bush and the soviet leader Gorbachev hold a summit in Washington D.C to talk of issues in Germany.
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A U.S led force led to stop Saddam Husseins occupation of oil Feilds in Kuwait.
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Terrorist attack on the U.S by attacking the twin towers in New York.Started the war on terror.
