11 Hospital services Americans with origins from the Pacific are the smallest minority in Texas According to the survey only 18,000 Texans are Pacific Islanders; 16,400 are of non-Hispanic descent There are roughly 5,400 Native Hawaiians 5,300 Guamanians and 6,400 people from other groups Samoan Americans were scant; only 2,920 people were from this group the city of Euless a suburb of Fort Worth contains a sizable population of Tongan Americans at nearly 900 people over one percent of the city's population Killeen has a sufficient population of Samoans and Guamanian and people of Pacific Islander descent surpass one percent of the city's population. Deer Park The Axis advance in the Pacific halted in 1942 when Japan lost the critical Battle of Midway; later Germany and Italy were defeated in North Africa and then decisively at Stalingrad in the Soviet Union Key setbacks in 1943 which included a series of German defeats on the Eastern Front the Allied invasions of Sicily and Italy and Allied victories in the Pacific cost the Axis its initiative and forced it into strategic retreat on all fronts in 1944 the Western Allies invaded German-occupied France while the Soviet Union regained its territorial losses and turned toward Germany and its allies During 1944 and 1945 the Japanese suffered major reverses in mainland Asia in Central China South China and Burma while the Allies crippled the Japanese Navy and captured key Western Pacific islands. Casualties and war crimes (in Asiain Europe) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Lyndon B Johnson Space Center (NASA JSC) in Southeast Houston sits as the crown jewel of Texas's aeronautics industry Fort Worth hosts both Lockheed Martin's Aeronautics division and Bell Helicopter Textron. Lockheed builds the F-16 Fighting Falcon the largest Western fighter program and its successor the F-35 Lightning II in Fort Worth; . ; Galena Park 7 Trade The first Texas freeway was the Gulf Freeway opened in 1948 in Houston as of 2005 79,535 miles (127,999 km) of public highway crisscrossed Texas (up from 71,000 miles (114,263 km) in 1984) to fund recent growth in the state highways Texas has 17 toll roads (see list) with several additional tollways proposed in central Texas the southern section of the State Highway 130 toll road has a speed limit of 85 miles per hour (137 km/h) the highest in the nation. All federal and state highways in Texas are paved.
; The state's conservative white voters began to support Republican presidential candidates by the mid-20th century After this period they supported Republicans for local and state offices as well and most whites became Republican Party members the party also attracted some minorities but many have continued to vote for Democratic candidates the shift to the Republican Party is much-attributed to the fact that the Democratic Party became increasingly liberal during the 20th century and thus increasingly out-of-touch with the average Texas voter as Texas was always a conservative state voters switched to the GOP which now more closely reflected their beliefs. Commentators have also attributed the shift to Republican political consultant Karl Rove who managed numerous political campaigns in Texas in the 1980s and 90s. Other stated reasons included court-ordered redistricting and the demographic shift in relation to the Sun Belt that favored the Republican Party and conservatism. Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill Water pollution of the Houston Ship Channel became notorious in 1972 Work on the Texas Commerce Tower now the JPMorgan Chase Tower began in 1979. . . Low birth weight In 1799 Spain gave Louisiana back to France in exchange for the promise of a throne in central Italy Although the agreement was signed on October 1 1800 it did not go into effect until 1802 the following year Napoleon sold Louisiana to the United States the original agreement between Spain and France had not explicitly specified the borders of Louisiana and the descriptions in the documents were ambiguous and contradictory the United States insisted that its purchase also included most of West Florida and all of Texas. Despite considerable losses in early 1942 Germany and its allies stopped a major Soviet offensive in central and southern Russia keeping most territorial gains they had achieved during the previous year in May the Germans defeated Soviet offensives in the Kerch Peninsula and at Kharkov and then launched their main summer offensive against southern Russia in June 1942 to seize the oil fields of the Caucasus and occupy Kuban steppe while maintaining positions on the northern and central areas of the front the Germans split Army Group South into two groups: Army Group a advanced to the lower Don River and struck south-east to the Caucasus while Army Group B headed towards the Volga River the Soviets decided to make their stand at Stalingrad on the Volga.
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