With the rise of the Nazis in Germany and Austria, many of the Vienna Circle's members left for the United States where they taught in several universities, causing their philosophical ideas to spread in the Anglo-Saxon world throughout the 1930s-1940s.
其后随着纳粹在德国和奥地利得势，维也纳学派的许多成员都离开去了美国大学教书，使得他们的哲学观点在三十到四十年代传播到盎格鲁-撒克逊世界。