The Camp David Accords were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1978. The agreement was initially designed to end decades of Arab and Israeli hostilities, but later evolved into a concerted effort to promote bilateral agreements between Egypt and Israel. The agreement represented the culmination of a year’s intense diplomatic work by President Jimmy Carter. The specific terms of the two accords provided for demilitarization of the border between the two nations, the promise that they would work together to establish a legitimate Palestinian governing body, and that both countries would receive regular aid from the United States. 

President Jimmy Carter was present at Camp David, in 1978, when the Peace process was formalized. In the months leading up to the agreement, Carter had travelled extensively throughout the Middle East, meeting with heads of state in an attempt to see how peace between the Arab nations and Israel could be established.

It was President Ronald Reagan who issued this challenge to the reform-minded Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev.  The Berlin Wall eventually fell on November 9th, 1989.

The Red Scare of the 1950s was aimed at an increasing fear of Communists infiltrating the United States Government. Thanks to the spread of Soviet-style Communism throughout Eastern Europe in the late 1940s and victory by Mao Tse Tung's Communists in China, Communism had reached its apex by 1950. In the American government, worries that Soviet spies were leaking secrets to Moscow continued to grow. Many members of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) were brought to testify in front of the House Un-American Activities committee in the late 1940s, resulting in the dismissal of many government officials and the creation of the Hollywood blacklist. By leading a series of committees which attempted to find communists in various parts of government, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy became the most famous "red hunter" in the congress.

On June 27th, 1950, in order to assist non-Communist forces on the Korean peninsula, President Harry Truman sent U.S. troops to help push back the Communists who had invaded South Korea.

On August 6th and August 9th of 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, resulting in the Japanese surrender of World War II.

In 1962, President Kennedy ordered the naval blockade of Cuba which many believe pushed the USA and the USSR perilously close to conflict, until the Soviet Union eventually withdrew.

The U.S. invaded Caribbean nation of Grenada in response to the coup orchestrated by a Marxist faction within the Grenadine government.

Franklin Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease Act in May of 1941, shortly after Nazi Germany began occupying France. Support for the Allied cause had been increasing among the American public throughout the preceeding year. The Lend-Lease Act was the first offical support for the Allied cause from the American government, in the form of direct lending of war materiel. The program continued throughout the war, even after the United States officially entered combat on the Allied side.

The Civil War saw a peculiar nature to its naval battles, as the Union held a firm blockade around all Southern ports, and held more ships. Nonetheless, a consistent fleet of small "blockade runners" allowed the Confederacy to keep the U.S. Navy busy throughout the war. In 1862, the Confederacy acquired a stranded U.S. vessel, the Merrimack, gave it an iron plate shell and battering ram, and rechristened it the Virginia. This new "ironside" wreaked havoc for a few months, until the U.S. developed the all iron Monitor, which then sought out its iron counterpart. Their naval battle on March 8, 1862 at Hampton Roads, VA, proved a loud and famous draw, but also showed that the era of wooden sailing ships was over.