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Meanwhile, the United States passed several Neutrality Acts, trying to avoid foreign entanglements as it reeled from the Depression and the Dust Bowl years. In the last few pre-war years, Nazi Germany blazed the path to conflict - rearming, signing a non-aggression treaty with the USSR, annexing Austria, and invading Czechoslovakia. Bush, have graced the Person of the Year cover, many of them more than once. Eleven American presidents, from FDR to George W. The Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936, becoming a rehearsal of sorts for the upcoming World War - Germany and Italy supported the nationalist rebels led by General Francisco Franco, and some 40,000 foreign nationals traveled to Spain to fight in what they saw as the larger war against fascism. Controversial choices have included Adolf Hitler (1938), Joseph Stalin (1939, 1942), and Ayatullah Khomeini (1979).TIMEs choices for Person of the Year are often politicians and statesmen. A shy, nervous man, a heavy smoker and drinker (it would kill him at 56), King George VI would have preferred to have. His struggle to overcome a debilitating speech impediment a stutter was immortalized in the 2011 American Academy Award-winning film for Best Picture, The King’s Speech. Germany, Italy, and Japan were testing the newly founded League of Nations with multiple invasions and occupations of nearby countries, and felt emboldened when they encountered no meaningful consequences. You will remember that King George VI was not a man comfortable with public speaking. China and the Empire of Japan had been at war since Japanese troops invaded Manchuria in 1931. Nationalism was sweeping through Germany, and it chafed against the punitive measures of the Versailles Treaty that had ended World War I. The Great Depression had started a decade before, leaving much of the world unemployed and desperate. Greatest single news event of 1938 took place on September 29, when four statesmen met at the Fhrerhaus, in Munich, to redraw the map of Europe.
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Albert Einstein writes President Franklin D. In December 1938, over Christmas vacation, physicists Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch made a startling discovery that would immediately revolutionize nuclear.
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The son of an Austrian petty customs official, Adolf Hitler was raised as a spoiled child by a doting mother. The years leading up to the declaration of war between the Axis and Allied powers in 1939 were tumultuous times for people across the globe. The German radiochemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann discover the process of fission in uranium. 'The man most responsible for this world tragedy is a moody, brooding, unprepossessing, 49-year-old Austrian-born ascetic with a Charlie Chaplin mustache.