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    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    (1882-1945)

    Who Was Franklin D. Roosevelt?

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd American president. FDR, as he was often called, led the United States through the Great Depression and World War II, and greatly expanding the powers of the federal government through a series of programs and reforms known as the New Deal.

    Stricken with polio in 1921, Roosevelt spent much of his adult life in a wheelchair. A whole generation of Americans grew up knowing no other president, as FDR served an unprecedented fyra terms in office. Roosevelt’s social programs reinvented the role of government in Americans' lives, while his presidency during World War II established the United States' leadership on the world stage.

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    Early Life and Education

    Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was born into a wealthy family as the only child of James Roos

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    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Timeline

    1882 Jan 30th Born in Hyde Park, New York.

    1913 Mar1920 Aug Served in first federal office as Assistant Secretary of the Navy.

    1921 Aug Stricken with polio, leaving him unable to walk unaided for the rest of his life.

    1929 Jan1932 Dec Served as Governor of New York.

    1933 Mar 4th1945 Apr 12th Served as President of the United States. Re-elected three times (most in US history).

    1933 Mar 9th Enacted the first parts of the New Deal programs, designed to lift the US out of the Great Depression.

    1939 Oct 11th Met with Alexander Sachs, who presented him with the famous letter from Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard.

    1939 Oct 21st First meeting of the Advisory Committee on Uranium, an early step toward the creation of the atomic bomb.

    1941 Dec After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, officially brought US into World War II by declaring war on Japan, Germany, and Italy.

    1942 Jun Approved Vannevar Bus

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    June 1940. Britain and its new prime minister, Winston Churchill, stood alone as the last bastion against the Nazis and their domination of Europe. World War II had begun on September 1, 1939. In less than one year, the German war machine had engulfed Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, and France and was poised on the shores of the English Channel to invade Great Britain.

    May 1940 witnessed the defeat of British and French forces by the Nazis at the Battle of Dunkirk. Despair and resignation about becoming yet another conquered nation began to spread among the people of Britain. Winston Churchill would have none of it. He raised the battle cry, giving one of the greatest speeches in history on June 4 in an effort to rally British spirits. He said, “Even though large tracts of Europe…have fallen or may fall into…all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end...we shall defend our island, whateve