Truman is famous in Japan for dropping nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but in reality his duties are widespread. Harry S. Truman before becoming president Truman was born and raised in Missouri in 1886, and after graduating from a local high school he got a job at a bank. Truman is the
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
On August 2, 1990, elite Iraqi Republican Guard troops invaded Kuwait. A lightning operation - in two days they had taken the entire country - that caught the international community by surprise. Although Iraq had been critical of the increase in Kuwaiti oil production that was keeping prices low an
Ronald Reagan, the 40th generation, was the oldest president in history and the only divorced president. Ronald Reagan before becoming president Ronald Reagan was born in 1911 in Illinois. His father was an Irish Catholic and his mother was a Scottish Protestant, but Ronald became a Protestant