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Jun 6, 2024 · After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, pulled the U.S. into World War II, the Texas Tech Board of Directors took action to make the university more accessible to students in the military.
The United States' entry into World War I on April 6, 1917, had an immediate impact on campus life at the University of Texas at Austin. During World War I, the university hosted an Air Service training school and aviation cadets received essential ground training at UT Austin before proceeding to the Camp John Dick Aviation Concentration Camp ...
During World War II, Texas A&M produced over 20,000 combat troops, contributing more officers than both the United States Military Academy and United States Naval Academy combined.
Though enrollment declined during World War II, Texas Tech trained 4,747 men in its armed forces training detachments. [5] Following the war, in 1946, the college saw its enrollment leap to 5,366 from a low of 1,696 in 1943.
Jun 6, 2017 · Tracking changes in the prevailing social ethos between the late eighteenth and early twenty-first centuries, Dorn illustrates the ways in which civic-mindedness, practicality, commercialism, and affluence influenced higher education's dedication to the public good.
The Texas in World War II Initiative. The Texas Historical Commission’s (THC) Texas in World War II initiative was a multi-year statewide effort to honor the role of Texas during the Second World War. The THC launched the initiative on September 2, 2005, at the Texas State Capitol in Austin.
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Feb 1, 1996 · Texas Post World War II. The last five decades of the twentieth century witnessed the transformation of Texas from a rural and agricultural state to an urban, industrial one. The changes caused new problems and exacerbated old ones for a population grounded in agrarian values.
