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It is 1938...
* Unemployment spiked to 19 percent during a new economic recession.
* Most Americans wanted to keep refugees out of the United States.
* More than 100 African Americans had been lynched since 1930.
* Two-thirds of Americans believed German Jews were either "entirely" or "partly" to blame for their own persecution.
* Germany expanded its territory by annexing Austria in March and the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia in September.
* The peacetime US Army ranked 17th in the world, both in size and combat power. |