(Wood 47)
Goal: “Demonstrate the interdependence of all states and countries in the 20th century world.” (Appelbaum xii).
Soviet Union first to accept involvement in the fair, $4million for a pavilion (Appelbaum xii). This fair saw a record 60 nations and international organizations represented in the fair (Appelbaum xii). Germany was noticeably absent. It was believed it was to save for a war and it was claimed Hitler “would never exhibit in a city whose mayor had called his country ‘a museum of horrors’” (Appelbaum xii).