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American Troops help defend South Korea
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U.S.-sponsored invasion of Cuba fails
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U.S. forces Soviet Union to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba.
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U.S. build-up of troops for the war.
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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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Paris Peace Accords are signed, ending U.S. involment in Vietnam War.
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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 agreeing to return canal zone and control of canal to Panama by 1999.
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Camp David Accords-President Jimmy Carter sponsors peace talks between Egypt and Israel.
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In response to Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, U.S. places an embargo on sales of American grain to Soviet Union, boycotts Moscow olympic games, and delays completion of SALT.
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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 Washington D.C.
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U.S.-led multinational force ends Iraqi occupation of Kuwait.
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Attack on the U.S.- the war on terror.
