10.2.1 Consequences of obesity 1939 1940 1941 1942 5 See also Northwest Gulf of Mexico which extends from Alabama to the Rio Grande. For several decades official British policy was to maintain strong ties with Mexico in the hopes that the country could stop the United States from expanding further. When the Texas Revolution erupted Great Britain had declined to become involved officially expressing confidence that Mexico could handle its own affairs in 1840 after years in which the Republic of Texas was neither annexed by the United States nor reabsorbed into Mexico Britain signed a treaty to recognize the nation and act as a mediator to help Texas gain recognition from Mexico, Airports Fountain of the Downtown Aquarium Houston in 2012, In the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina disaster about 200,000 New Orleans residents resettled in Houston Soon following Katrina was Hurricane Rita a category 5 hurricane which caused 2.5 million Houstonians to evacuate the city the largest urban evacuation in the history of the U.S. In Europe Germany and Italy were becoming more aggressive in March 1938 Germany annexed Austria again provoking little response from other European powers. Encouraged Hitler began pressing German claims on the Sudetenland an area of Czechoslovakia with a predominantly ethnic German population Soon the United Kingdom and France followed the counsel of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and conceded this territory to Germany in the Munich Agreement which was made against the wishes of the Czechoslovak government in exchange for a promise of no further territorial demands. Soon afterwards Germany and Italy forced Czechoslovakia to cede additional territory to Hungary and Poland annexed Czechoslovakia's Zaolzie region.
. . 12 Communities 6 Features Colleges and universities See also: List of colleges and universities in Houston, Beginning around the mid-20th century Texas began to transform from a rural and agricultural state to one that was urban and industrialized the state's population grew quickly during this period with large levels of migration from outside the state. As a part of the Sun Belt Texas experienced strong economic growth particularly during the 1970s and early 1980s. Texas's economy diversified lessening its reliance on the petroleum industry by 1990 Hispanics overtook blacks to become the largest minority group in the state.
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