The history of Jewish Americans as well as their culture, people and accomplishments are presented in this fifth program of Jewish American Achievement. Chapter List 1.) 1939 - Albert Einstein Pens Letter to Support Atomic Bomb Research - Albert Einstein who created the General Theory of Relativity, the Special Theory of Relativity, and the famous equation E = MC2, and won the Nobel Prize in Physics, left Nazi Germany for the U.S. and later encouraged President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to pursue atomic bomb research in WWII. 2.) 1939 - Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany are Turned Away from American Shores - The "St. Louis," turned away from America under orders by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was carrying Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, refugees that were fleeeing concentration camps and Adolph Hitler's Final Solution, known as the Holocaust. 3.) 1941 - 1945 - Jewish Americans Fight with Valor in WWII - Over a half million Jewish Americans, volunteered for WWII, like Captain Ben Salomon, who fought against Japan and lost his life in the Pacific at the Battle of Saipan, winning the Congressional Medal of Honor, and General Maurice Rose, who fought against Germany in Europe. 4.) 1942 - Physicist Robert Oppenheimer Leads Team to Develop First Atom Bomb - Physics great Robert Oppenheimer led the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico in WWII to develop an atomic bomb. 5.) 1945 - Bess Myerson is Crowned Miss America - Bess Myerson won the Miss America Beauty Pageant in 1945 and used her win to fight against anti-Semitism in the U.S.
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