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American troops help defend South Korea.
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U.S. sopnsored 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 in Vietnam War.
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President Nixon visits China and Soviet Union. Nixon and Brezhnev sign the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT).
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Ended U.S. involvement 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 with agreeing 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.
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U.S. establishes full diplomatic relations with China.
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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 SLAT II.
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President Ronald Reagan orders invasino 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 usmmit in Washington, D.C.
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U.S. led multinational force ends Iraqi occupation of Kuwait.
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War on terror.
