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
The movie The Untouchables by Eliot Ness tells the story of the man who against all odds got the gangster Americas most famous man, Al Capone, will end his days in Alcatraz prison. But there was another man who spent years in New York persecuting organized crime, who also managed to put several of
At the Republican National Convention held in Miami on August 5, 1968, Richard Nixon he was elected candidate for the presidency of the Republican Party after defeating Nelson Rockefeller and Ronald Reagan. For its part, the Democratic Party, after the refusal of the president in office Lyndon B. Jo
During the years of the Cold War, from the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall, any one-time event in the USA or the USSR was susceptible to being misinterpreted and generating a new war on a global level – such as the Mistranslation of the words of the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev