us history post war timeline

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    korean war

    American troops help defend south korea
  • Bay of pigs

    Us sponsors invasion of Cuba. It fails.
  • Cuban missile crisis

    US forces soviet union to remove nucular missiles from Cuba
  • Prep for Vietnam war

    US start troop build up for Vietnam war
  • SALT

    President Nixon meets with Brezhnev sign the strategic arms limitation treaty
  • Paris Peace Accords

    End of US involvement of Vietnam War
  • OPEC embargo

    on oil to Us because of the nations support for Israel in October war
  • US signs treaty

    Returning the panama back to the panama by1999
  • Camp David Accords

    jimmy carter sponsors peace between talks between Egypt and israel
  • US establishes full diplomantic relations with China

  • Invasion of Grenada

    Ronald Regan orders the invasion after a Marxist revolution in that caribian nation
  • Iran wepons deal

    American public learns that Us sold weapons to Iran in hopes of gaining prisoner release from Lebanon.
  • US invasion

    Panama and captures Manuel Noriega
  • Bush and Gorbachev

    held summit in Washington DC
  • Persian Gulf War

    Us led multinational forces ends Iraq occupation in kuait