U.S timeline

By bryanc7

  • 1950

    1950
    General Douglas MacArthur plans to push the North Korean out of South Korea

  • 1960

    1960
    Bay of Pigs invasion with the U.S training Cuban rebels to overthrow Castro

  • 1960

    1960
    Kennedy sends troops to Vietnam to fight the communist forces

  • 1960

    1960
    Cuban Missile Crisis, Cuba asked for Soviet help leading to the Soviets putting missiles in Cuba

  • 1960

    1960
    Lyndon Johnson orders airstrikes in North Vietnam due to Vietnamese torpedo boats firing upon American destroyer

  • 1970

    1970
    Nixon reaches out and establishes diplomatic relations with China

  • 1970

    1970
    The Camp David Accords are placed to end the Israelian-Egyptian conflict by the Carter administration

  • 1980

    1980
    Iran-Contra affair where the U.S was to exposed to selling weapons to Iran

  • 1980

    1980
    Reagan goes to the Soviet Union to talk to Gorbachev as well as addressing students at Moscow State University

  • 1990

    1990
    Operation Desert Storm, U.S ground troops were sent to Kuwait to drive out the Iraqis

  • 2000

    2000
    Bush sends troops to Afghanistan due to the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center

  • 2000

    2000
    Bush sends troops to Iraq to bring down Saddam Hussein from power and his WMD