... Commission was authorized to create a memorial to honor the veterans of the Korean War. In 1988 the Korean Veterans Memorial Advisory Board approved the location of the site that was southwest of the Lincoln memorial in an area called Ash Woods. A team of architects from State College, Pennsylvania submitted the winning design for the memorial in 1989. After some problems on agreeing with the design, ground breaking took place in November 1993. World ... Clinton and President Kim Young Sam of the Republic of South Korea, on the 42nd anniversary of the armistice, July 27, 1995. The Korea...

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... there was a war plan involving a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. This information was relayed to Roosevelt. On August 10, 1941, a top British agent told the FBI that a planned attack on pearl Harbor would occur soon. The FBI told him his information was "...too precise, to complete to be believed." They disregarded it as a trap. In early fall, an agent for the Sino-Korean People's League ... told an employee at CBS that the Korean underground had proof that the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor sometime before Christmas. In late October, the same agent told a US senator that th...

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... countries became involved in the war when Iran attacked Kuwaiti oil tankers that were traveling in the Persian Gulf. These attacks greatly tainted the view on Iran and soon Ayatollah Khomeini had a difficult time finding weapons and parts for the war. As a result of the shortage of weapons, some Iranian nationalist took several Americans as hostages and made demands and ransoms. In 1950, the North Korean communist soldiers poured across ... the 38th , a neutral zone between the communist North Korea and democratic ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate