The rise to such immense power of the Nazis under the sole leadership of a supreme leader led to changes in the US policies and overall redirected the flow of history.
At the onset of war, with the Great Depression still looming behind their shoulders, US citizens felt an intensified sense of isolationism and xenophobia. The 1924 Immigration Law which obstructed immigrants from obtaining entry visas persisted strongly in spite of the growing number of killings in Europe.
In 1940, the US took an extra controversial step in its foreign policies by ordering US consuls to prolong visa processes, further restricting the flow of refugees fleeing from the Nazi party. This policy will continue to be a topic of much discussion, as it correlated directly with the fate of a human race. However, from 1933, when the Nazi party rose to power, to 1945, when WWII officially ended, around 200,000 Jews found refuge in the United States.
Among those refugees was Albert Einstein, whose enormous intellectuality has never failed to astonish the world. And it was because of this man that the Manhattan Project was started, eventually leading to the creation of the first atomic bombs in history. Their incredible destructive power, later on used by the US on Japan, helped bring an end to the deadliest and costliest war in human history.
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