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Agrarian Women: Wives and Mothers in Rural Nebraska, 1880–1940 (1992) Hurt, R. Douglas. The Great Plains During World War II (2008), 524pp; Meyering; Sheryl L. Understanding O Pioneers! and My Antonia: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents (Greenwood Press, 2002) [ISBN missing] Pound, Louise.
After World War II, blacks in Omaha as in other parts of the nation began to press harder for civil rights. Veterans believed they deserved full rights after fighting for the nation. Some organizations had already been formed, but they became more active, leading into the city's Civil Rights Movement.
This is an incomplete list of military and other armed confrontations that have occurred within the boundaries of the modern US State of Nebraska since European contact. The region was part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain from 1535–1679, New France from 1679–1803, and part of the United States of America 1803–present.
The Territory of Nebraska was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 30, 1854, [1] until March 1, 1867, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Nebraska. The Nebraska Territory was created by the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854. The territorial capital was Omaha.
Nebraska (/ n ə ˈ b r æ s k ə / ⓘ nə-BRASS-kə) [17] is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.It borders South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the southwest; and Wyoming to the west.
About 1.2 million Austrians served in all branches of the German armed forces during World War II. After the defeat of the Axis Powers, the Allies occupied Austria in four occupation zones set up at the end of World War II until 1955, when the country again became a fully independent republic under the condition that it remained neutral.
1867 Nebraska is admitted into the Union as a state. 1868 Nebraska's first high school graduates come from Brownell Hall in North Omaha. 1868 The Sherman Barracks are built in the location of present-day North Omaha. 1869 The old territorial capitol building given to the City of Omaha for a high school.
Germans in Omaha immigrated to the city in Nebraska from its earliest days of founding in 1854, in the years after the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states.They continued to immigrate to Omaha in large numbers later in the 19th century, when many came from Bavaria and southern Germany, and into the early 20th century.