-
War between the North Koreans, supported by the Soviet Union. and the South Koreans, supported by the United States in an effort to stop the spread of Communism.
-
U.S sponsored invasion of Cuba, crushed by Castro.
-
U.S forces Soviet Union to remove nuclear missiles housed in Cuba in exchange for the United States' removal of missiles in Turkey
-
President Richard Nixon visits China and Soviet Union, Nixon and Brezhnev sign first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
-
The Paris Peace Accords were signed, which ended the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War
-
OPEC places an embargo on oil to U.S because of the nation's support for Israel in the October War
-
U.S signs treaty agreeing to return Canal Zone and control of canal to Panama by 1999.
-
President Jimmy Carter sponsors peace talks between Egypt and Israel.
-
The United States establishes full diplomatic relations with China.
-
America places an embargo on grain to the Soviet Union, boycotts the Moscow Olympic Games, and delays completion of SALT II
-
President Reagan orders the invasion of Grenada after a Marxist revolution in that Caribbean nation.
-
The public learns that the United States secretly sold weapons to Iran in hopes of hostage releases in Lebanon.
-
President Bush and Gorbachev held a summit in Washington, DC.
-
U.S invades Panama and captures Manuel Noriega.
-
U.S led multinational force ends Iraqi occupation of Kuwait
-
The start of the war on terror, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York.