German operations in the Atlantic also suffered by May 1943 as Allied counter-measures became increasingly effective the resulting sizeable German submarine losses forced a temporary halt of the German Atlantic naval campaign in November 1943 Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill met with Chiang Kai-shek in Cairo and then with Joseph Stalin in Tehran the former conference determined the post-war return of Japanese territory and the military planning for the Burma Campaign while the latter included agreement that the Western Allies would invade Europe in 1944 and that the Soviet Union would declare war on Japan within three months of Germany's defeat. University of Houston Mainline Protestant 13; Historical population Climate 489 Cheniere Energy 9 Further reading Chevron has its Houston offices at the 1400 Smith Street complex. In the mid-to-late 1930s Japanese forces in Manchukuo had sporadic border clashes with the Soviet Union and Mongolia the Japanese doctrine of Hokushin-ron which emphasised Japan's expansion northward was favoured by the Imperial Army during this time With the Japanese defeat at Khalkin Gol in 1939 the ongoing Second Sino-Japanese War and ally Nazi Germany pursuing neutrality with the Soviets this policy would prove difficult to maintain Japan and the Soviet Union eventually signed a Neutrality Pact in April 1941 and Japan adopted the doctrine of Nanshin-ron promoted by the Navy which took its focus southward eventually leading to its war with the United States and the Western Allies.

. Houston the most populous city in the Southern United States is located along the upper Texas Gulf Coast approximately 50 miles (80 km) northwest of the Gulf of Mexico at Galveston the city which is the ninth-largest in the United States by area covers 601.7 square miles (1,558 km2) of which 579.4 square miles (1,501 km2) or 96.3% is land and 22.3 square miles (58 km2) or 3.7% is water! Snow falls infrequently in the Magnolia City When it does occur it usually melts immediately on the ground with light accumulation on roofs and raised surfaces Only very uncommonly does it accumulate on the ground Since 1895 it has snowed 39 times in Houston at an average of about once every 3 years though some decades have several instances of recorded snowfall while others have only one each (e.g the 1930s and 1950s) and one decade where there wasn't any snowfall (1990s) the last recorded snowfall in Houston was on November 13 2018. There were more incidences of snow in the 1980s on average than any other decade recorded but the 2000s also witnessed more frequent and record-breaking snows.