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American troops help defend South Korea
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US sponsored invasion of Cuba fails
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US build-up of troops in Vietnam War
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US 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 (SALT).
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Paris Peace Accords are signed, ending US involvement in the Vietnam War. OPEC places an embargo on oil to US because of the nation's support for Israel in October War
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US signs treaty 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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US establishes full diplomatic relations with China In response to Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, US 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 US secretly sold weapons to Iran in hopes of gaining release of American hostages in Lebanon
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US invades Panama and captures Manuel Noriega
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Bush and Gorbachev hold summit meeting in Washington, DC
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US lead multinational force ends Iraqi occupation of Kuwait
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The war on terror begins as the Twin Towers are suicide bombed
