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American troops help defend South Korea. Also known as the forgotten war, South Korea was at war with Communist North Korea. The U.S helped the South in defeating the North. Now North and South Korea are divided between the 38th Parallel.
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Bay of Pigs was a U.S sponsored invasion of Cuba that failed. CIA trained people to invade, but it wasn't enough. Kennedy refused to use the military in the evasion.
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Kennedy sent 5,000 troops and 50 fighter jets in response to communist attacks in Laos.
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U.S forces Soviet Union to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba.
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President Richard Nixon visits China and Soviet Union. Nixon and Brezhnev sign first Strategic Arms limitation Treaty.
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U.S. involvement comes to an end in the Vietnam war when the Paris Peace Accords.
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OPEC places an embargo on oil to U.S. because of the nation's support for Israel in October War.
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U.S. signs treaty agreement to return Canal Zone and control of canal to Panama by 1999
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President Jimmy Carter sponsors peace talks between Egypt and Israel. These were secret negotiations at Camp David
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U.S. established full diplomatic relations with China.
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In response to Soviet invasion of Afganistan, U.S. 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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President Ronald Reagan orders invasion of Grenada after a Marxist revolution in that Caribbean nation.
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American public learns that U.S. secretly sold weapons to Iran in hopes of gaining release of American hostages in Lebanon.
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U.S. Invades Panama and captures Manuel Noriega.
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Bush and Gorbachev hold summit in Washignton, D.C.
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U.S. led multinational force ends Iraqi occupation of Kuwait.
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Muslim terrorist attack on the United States of America. Four passenger airliners are overtaken by terrorist. One crashes into the Pentagon and two other crash into World Trade Center.
