HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: ARTICLES FROM THE US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM’S HOLOCAUST ENCYCLOPEDIA The United States and the Holocaust WHAT DID AMERICANS KNOW? Included in the exhibit: • United States and the Nazi Threat: 1933-1937 • The Nazi Rise to Power • Adolf Hitler • Defining the Enemy • Nazi Propaganda • Dorothy Thompson • The Nazi Olympics Berlin 1936 • The Nazi Olympics Berlin 1936: African American Voices and "Jim Crow" America • Kristallnacht • Frances Perkins • Buchenwald • Edward R. Murrow Related articles: • Charles Coughlin DID AMERICANS HELP JEWISH REFUGEES? Included in the exhibit: • Immigration to the United States 1933-1941 • United States and the Refugee Crisis: 1938 - 1941 • Immigration and Refugee Law, 1921 -1980 • How Many Refugees Came to the United States 1933-45 • Dorothy Thompson • Documents Required to Obtain a Visa • Wagner-Rogers Bill • Eleanor Roosevelt • Immigration of Refugee Children to the United States • Voyage of the St. Louis • Return to Europe of the St. Louis • Wartime Fate of the Passengers of the St. Louis • American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and Refugee Aid • The Rescue Mission of Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus • Quakers Related Articles • HIAS • Varian Fry • Martha and Waitstill Sharp WHY DID AMERICANS GO TO WAR? Included in the exhibit: • Franklin Delano Roosevelt • The United States: Isolation-Intervention • Charles Lindbergh Makes Un-American Speech • Pearl Harbor • Japanese American Relocation HOW DID AMERICANS RESPOND TO THE HOLOCAUST? Included in the exhibit: • The United States and the Holocaust, 1942-45 • Riegner Telegram • Stephen Wise • Operation Torch: The Anglo-American Invasion of French North Africa • D-Day • We Will Never Die Pageant • Art and Politics of Arthur Syzk • Peter Bergson • Breckinridge Long • Henry Morgenthau • War Refugee Board: Background and Establishment • War Refugee Board: Activities • Liberation • Liberation of Nazi Camps .