With the surrender of Japan in World War II, the Korean peninsula, occupied by the Japanese since 1910, was divided at the 38th Parallel:the north occupied by the Soviets and the south by the Americans. The prevailing tension exploded when North Korean troops invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950. Th
In the long and still unfinished process to achieve equality between men and women, one of the perhaps most significant milestones that the female sex has not yet achieved is to reach the position that confers the most power in the world today:the presidency of the United States. It seems possible
During the Vietnam War , between 1964 and 1975, a curious and dangerous phenomenon occurred within the US Army... the so-called Fragging (act of attacking a superior in the chain of command with the intention of frightening or killing him, usually using fragmentation grenades; hence its name). The u
On December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack on the United States Navys Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. The attack destroyed 13 warships and 188 aircraft, and killed 2,403 US military personnel and 68 civilians. Fearing a possible attack against the American president, F