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1. Where is Burma?
Burma, also known as Myanmar, is located in Southeast Asia.
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2. Who are the Rohingya?
The Rohingya are a religious and ethnic minority in Burma.
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3. Liberation
In the final days of World War II, American magazines covered victories in war alongside some of the first widely...
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4. War!
On December 7, 1941, Japan launched a surprise aerial assault on the US Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Two...
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5. Americans and the Holocaust
Holocaust history raises important questions about what Europeans could have done to stop the rise of Nazism in Germany and...
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6. Americans and the Holocaust
By the time Nazi Germany forced the world into war, democratic civilization itself was at stake. The US military fought...
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7. In 1933 . . .
On his first day as president, Franklin D. Roosevelt told Americans: “The only thing we have to fear is fear...
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8. Nazism in the News
American newspapers reported frequently on Hitler and Nazi Germany throughout the 1930s. At least 2,000 daily newspapers were printed in the...
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9. Protesting Nazism
“What is happening in Germany today may happen tomorrow in any other land on earth unless it is challenged and...
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10. Not a Governmental Affair
“It has been a favorite pastime of the SA men to attack the Jews and one cannot avoid the plain...
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11. Boycott the Olympics?
Violating Olympic Rules? As the 1936 Olympics in Berlin neared, Americans debated whether to boycott the Games as a protest...
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12. American Newsreels
During the 1930s, 80 million Americans—nearly two-thirds of the country’s population—went to the movies each week. Newsreels shown before the...
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13. Nazis in America
The German American Bund, a pro-Nazi organization for Americans of German descent, demonized Jews and Communists and dreamed of a...
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14. In 1938 . . .
Unemployment spiked to 19 percent during a new economic recession. Most Americans wanted to keep refugees out of the United...
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15. Roosevelt Denounces Nazis
At his press conference five days after Kristallnacht, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said that the attack had “deeply shocked” the...
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16. Admit Refugee Children?
In February 1939, Democratic senator Robert Wagner of New York and Republican congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts introduced legislation...
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17. The St. Louis
On May 13, 1939, the German transatlantic liner MS St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, Germany, for Havana, Cuba, carrying 937...
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18. Refugee Ships at Sea
More than 1,200 ships carrying nearly 111,000 Jewish refugees arrived in New York between March 1938, when Germany annexed Austria,...
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19. Fear of Spies
“Federal Bureau of Investigation . . . director, J. Edgar Hoover, revealed complaints and tips on acts against the national...
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20. America First Committee
In 1940, a group of Yale University students founded the America First Committee to oppose US intervention in the European...
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21. In 1942 . . .
The US military quickly grew to nearly four million troops. The United States spent most of 1942 fighting Japan in...
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22. “Cold-Blooded Extermination”
Mass murder of Jews by German mobile killing squads began in the summer of 1941 as part of the German...
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23. Pressure to Act
As details of the Nazis’ murderous plans trickled out to the public in 1943, American Jews remained divided about how...
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24. State Department Obstruction Exposed
In early 1943, US State Department officials blocked reports about the mass murder of Jews from reaching the United States....
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25. War Refugee Board
“We have talked. We have sympathized. We have expressed our horror. The time to act is long past due.” —John...