TIMELINE OF EVENTS

CHAPTER 28 REVIEW

1972 Nixon visits China
SALT I signed
1973 U.S. supports Israel in Yom Kippur War
1973–1974 OPEC oil embargo
1975 Helsinki accords
1978 Camp David accords
1979 Iran hostage crisis
SALT II signed; Congress does not ratify
Soviet Union invades Afghanistan
1982 Boland Amendment passed
750,000 attend nuclear freeze rally in New York City
1983 Suicide bomb attack in Lebanon kills 241 U.S. soldiers
U.S. invasion of Grenada
1987 Senate hearings on Iran-Contra affair
Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty signed
1989 Tiananmen Square protests
Fall of the Berlin Wall
1990–1991 Soviet Union dismantled
1991 U.S. pushes Iraq out of Kuwait
1993 Second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty signed