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The United States enters WWI declaring war on Germany and Austria-Hungary. -
On June 28, 1919, the Texas legislature approved a resolution ratifying the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. Texas was the ninth state in the U.S. and the first state in the South to ratify the amendment. -
The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939. -
World War II was the biggest and deadliest war in history, involving more than 30 countries. -
The Holocaust was the state-sponsored mass murder of some 6 million European Jews and millions of others by the German Nazis during World War II. -
The Korean war began in 1950, when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel. -
The Vietnam War and active U.S. involvement in the war began in 1954, though ongoing conflict in the region had stretched back several decades. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. -
The civil rights movement was a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for Black Americans to gain equal rights under the law in the United States. -
The U.S. Congress passes legislation establishing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a civilian agency responsible for coordinating America's activities in space, on July 29, 1958.