Franklin D. Roosevelt was born in 1882 and served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. He led the country through two terms and was elected to unprecedented third and fourth terms due to his leadership during the Great Depression and World War 2. Some of his major accomplishments included establishing the New Deal program to provide relief, recovery and reform for Americans suffering economically, and leading the country in declaring war on Japan and Germany after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Roosevelt worked closely with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and helped establish organizations like the United Nations.
2. Biography/Early Life
O Born January 30, 1882
O Attended Harvard and married Eleanor Roosevelt 1905
O Lived as a lawyer in NY
O Won NY state senate election as democrat
O 1912 became assistant sec of Navy
O Chosen as VP with Cox but lost
O Contracted polio
O Elected governor NY 1928
O Elected President 1932
O Died April 12, 1945
3. First New Deal
O “Relief, Recovery Reform”
O Emergency Banking Act (1933)
O Glass Steagall Act/ FDIC (1933)
O Federal Emergency Relief Administration
-CCC and AAA
O NIRA (opposed by Supreme Court)
O Reduction in military spending 1934
O Withdrawal of pensions of Veterans
O BIG mistake, given back
4. Second New Deal
O Work Progress Administration
O Social Security Act
O National Labor Relations Act
O ( Labor unions, Collective Bargaining, Strikes)
O American Liberty League criticism
5. Early Foreign Policy
O FDR hated imperialism
O Instituted Good Neighbor Policy
O Ended Latin American countries time as “protectorates
of the US
O In reaction to Anti-Comintern Pact btwn Germany and
Japan mandatory arms embargo
6. Ending Neutrality
O Quarantine Speech 1937
O Close relationship w/ Winston Churchill (Prime Minister
of Britain 1940)
O First break of neutrality = Destroyers for Bases
Agreement
O Lend Lease Act March 1941(Britain, China, and Soviet
Union)
O Arsenal of Democracy fireside chat and Four Freedoms
speech 1940-41
7. Reaction to Pearl Harbor
O December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor was attacked by the
Japanese
O Destroyed 16 warships
O Killed almost 3000 citizens
O Both Britain and US declared war day after
O Executive order 9066 removing Japanese citizens from
coast line 1942
O Tehran and Yalta conference
O United Nations
8. FUN FACTS
O Only president to win election 4 times
O Married the niece of Theodore Roosevelt his fifth cousin
O Cheated on Eleanor with her secretary Lucy Mercer and
continued it even when she found out
O First president to speak on television
O Wore a dress until age 5
O First president to fly in an airplane
9. Citations
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Web. 5 June 2013. <http://www.biography.com/people/
franklin-d-roosevelt-9463381?page=2>.
O The White House. Whie House Histical Associaton, n.d. Web. 5
June 2013.
<http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/franklindroosevelt
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O Leuchtenburg, William E. "Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(1933-1945)." American President.org. University of
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