...of invading South Korea? Yes. Did they want to (not, was it a logical thing to do)? Yes. So there was a threat. And the South Korean regime, despite US...
...becoming ungovernable. Protest against the apartheid in South Africa in the 1980s (Paul Weinberg) The anti-apartheid movement A British campaign to boycott South African goods launched in 1959 was renamed...
...and Science would not back down, however, and the FO had to grovel to the South Korean Ambassador, Hon Kon Lee, who was reportedly furious at the display of the...
...then proceeded to South America. His move through the Spanish ranks resulted in his promotion to Governor of Chile. During his early years the involvement with a prominent local, Isabel...
The independence of many South American countries from Spanish and Portuguese rule followed uprisings and wars from 1806 to the mid-1820s. British diplomacy in the independence of South America was,...
The 3 Polish codebreakers Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Rozycki and Henryk Zygalski ‘Il y a du nouveau’ On 26 July 1939, in the Pyry Forest south of Warsaw, Polish cryptologists revealed...
...the Normandy shore - @Wikimedia Commons Seventy years ago today, 130,000 American, British and Canadian troops began the largest seaborne assault ever attempted: Operation NEPTUNE, the assault phase of OVERLORD,...
...financial help from the US. But the Americans, mired in an escalating and apparently unwinnable war in South East Asia, were reluctant to bail the British government out again, though...
...a subject of speculation in the West. Korea and South-East Asian colonial possessions were threatened, while Britain worried about Hong Kong. The future of British commercial interests in the region...
...country? Map of the railways of South America and the International Trunk Lines. Source: The National Archives, Catalogue reference: FO 925/1600 Valparaiso in Chile was the major port for South...