The background to the Korean War began with some decisions made by the Allies at the end of World War II. Once the Soviet Union declared war on a collapsing Japanese Empire, it was decided that the American forces would accept the surrender of the Japanese troops in the south of Korea, and that the [...]

In the course of the 20th and 21st centuries there have been violent terrorist and insurgent groups that have attempted to overthrow established government (democratic and non-democratic) in Latin America to set up totalitarian regimes. Most of them have operated under the misleading and deceptive facade of "Liberation Front" or "People Movement", and so forth, [...]

The Reagan Administration comprises the two presidential terms of Ronald W Reagan, Republican, from 1981 to 1989. From the beginning, the new president had to deal with Jimmy Carter’s botched jobs: stagflation (recession plus a high inflation rate), high unemployment, energy crisis, the American hostages in the US embassy in Teheran, new communist governments in [...]

Succeeding John F Kennedy after his assassination, Lyndon Bain Johnson administration extended from 1963 to 1969. The spirit of compromise made of Johnson one of the most successful politicians of his time. With those who worked under him, he could be demanding. In a number of addresses beginning in mid-1964, President Lyndon B Johnson outlined [...]

When the noise of World War II subsided, many domestic problems, most of them economic ones, cropped up on the political horizon in England, such as unemployment and a huge debt due to the returning soldiers and war effort. Although the English people approved of Churchill as a war leader, they preferred another man for [...]

The Richard Nixon Administration was the period of government of President Richard Nixon, Republican, taking place from 1969 to 1974. In 1968, in a well-managed national convention, Republicans had nominated Richard M Nixon for president and Spiro T Agnew of Maryland for vice-president, who won the national election in November that year, defeating the Democratic [...]