ently, in 1921 Einstein made his first visit to America. In America he received an honorary degree from Princeton University, and a multitude of requests to speak for various groups, although his primary goal was to raise funds for the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He was widely acclaimed in America, and he continued to travel worldwide. He visited battle sites of the war, promoted education, and believed socialism was the key to world peace.3He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. It was awarded to him because of his work in the Photoelectric Effect, not for his theory of relativity. He gave money to his ex-wife to help with the children, and continued to travel and lecture. Einstein was visiting America in 1933 when Hitler came to power. Einstein was considered an enemy of the nation in Germany, and his house was broken into. He could not return to Germany and he again renounced his German citizenship. He worked on research at Princeton. Einstein was also awarded the Copley Medal of the Royal Society in 1925 and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1926.As the Second World War developed, America began to debate whether or not to explore the possibilities of developing an atomic bomb. Einstein was not directly involved in the creation of the bomb, but his equation E=MC2 was involved in the bombs conception. Einstein wanted the United States to create the atom bomb because he feared Nazi domination. Einsteins friend Leo Szilard composed a letter to President Roosevelt, warning him of the danger of the possibility that the Nazis could develop it first. This letter was signed by Einstein, and contributed to the Presidents decision to fund the Manhattan Project. If the Germans had been first to create the bomb the outcome of the war would have been completely different. Einstein was aware of the progress of the development of the bomb. On its completion, when it was about to be used, he wrote anot...
