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Affairs in the us
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Korea War
American troops help defend South Korea. -
Bay of Pigs
U.S.- sponsored invasion of Cuba fails -
Cuban Missile Crisis
U.S. forces Soviet Union to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba. -
U.S
U.S. build-up of troops in Vietnam War. -
President Richard Nixon
President Richard Nixon visits China and Soviet Union. Nixon and Brezhnev sign first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (Salt). -
Paris Peace Accords
Paris Peace Accords are signed, ending U.S. involvment in Vietnam War. -
OPEC
OPEC places an embargo on oil to U.S. because of the Nation's support for Israel in October War. -
Treaty Agreement
U.S. signs treaty agreeing to return Canal Zone and Control of canal to Panama by 1999. -
US- China
U.S. establishes full diplomatic relations with China. -
RR
President Ronald Reagan orders invasion of Grenada after a Marxist Revolution in that Carribean Nation. -
Iran weapons deal
Iran weapons deal- American public learns that U.S. secretly sold weapons to Iran in hopes of gaining release of american hostages in Lebanon. -
U.S
US invades Panama and captures Manuel Noriega. -
Bush
Bush and Gorbachev hold summit in Washington, D.C. -
Persian Gulf War
- US led multinational force ends Iraqi occupation of Kuwait.
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9/11
Attack on the U.S - the war on Terror -
Camp David Accords
President Jimmy Carter Sponsors peace talks between Egypt and Israel.