The United States was caught by surprise when heavily-armed North Korean troops and tanks poured into South Korea on June 25, 1950. But the Chicago Tribune had predicted America’s enemies would ...

President Harry S. Truman and General Douglas MacArthur, commander of U.N. forces during the Korean War, meet face to face or the first time at Wake Island, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, on ...

The film chronicles the life and presidency of Harry Truman, highlighting his journey from a Missouri farm boy to becoming the Vice President and later the President of the United States. It ...

On the 70th anniversary of the armistice that halted the Korean War, one American received a special honor in South Korea: former President Harry S. Truman, in whose memory a new, nearly 14-foot ...

But in South Korea, a country where Truman decided to commit U.S. and U.N. troops soon after the outbreak of the 1950-53 Korean War, Daniel hopes his grandfather is remembered as "a guy that took ...

The Korean War was wedged between World War II and Vietnam -- and often gets lost to history. Here's everything you need to know.

In June 1950, President Harry Truman ordered a naval blockade of the Korean coast and authorized Gen. Douglas MacArthur to send U.S. ground troops into Korea. During the three-year war, history ...

The specter of nuclear weapons hung over the Korean War. At a press con f erence in November 1950, Truman, pressed on potential use of the atomic bomb, said “there has always been active ...

How the Korean War Almost Went Nuclear In 1950, Harry Truman had to decide whether to use B-29s to drop atomic bombs.

Obama was caught on a hot mic in 2009 calling Kanye West a "jacka***" after the rapper interrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance ...

A leading military figure of World War II and the Korean War, he was relieved of command in Korea by President Truman in April 1951 after MacArthur publicly disagreed with U.S. policy.