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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
By: Chris Huckabee
Childhood/Youth
• Grew up in Hyde Park, New York
• Went to Groton Pep- School
• Entered Harvard in 1900
• Editor-in-Chief of Harvard Crimson
Polio
• Diagnosed August 1921, 39 years old
• Never able to walk again
Warm Springs Foundation
• Founded in 1927• Founded after FDR
discovered Georgia mineral waters
• Helped other polio patients to regain muscle usage and feeling for
Family
• Eleanor Roosevelt– Married on St.
Patrick’s day, 1905
Political Career
• Member of New York State Legislature, 1911-13
• Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1913-20
• Governor of New York, 1929-33
President
• Elected first time- 1932
Isolationalism
Depression
New Deal
• Social Security• Public Works• Works Progress
Administration (WPA)• National Recovery
Act (NRA)• Civilian Conservation
Corps (CCC)
Banking
• Bank “Holiday”• FDIC
Gearing up For War
• Lend-Lease• Change refrigerator
factories to bomb factories
Pearl Harbor
“Day Will Live in Infamy”
WWII
Italy
• Mussolini
Germany
• Hitler
D-Day
• June 6, 1944• Operation Overlord• Largest Seaborne
invasion in history• Greater than 3 million
troops
Churchill
• Doorstep to Democracy
• Closest Ally• Personal Friend to
FDR
Stalin
• Iron Curtain• Never fully trusted• Refused to save Jews
in Poland• Attempted to block
Marshall Plan
Japan
• Atomic Bomb
• Was “negotiating” with US during, up to Pearl Harbor
• Had atomic bomb dropped on it
Re-Election
• FDR vs. Alfred M. Landon- 1936
• FDR vs. Wendell L. Willkie- 1940
• FDR vs. Thomas E. Dewey- 1944
Death
• Died April 12, 1945