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  1. Franklin Delano Roosevelt served as President from March 1933 to April 1945, the longest tenure in American history. He may have done more during those twelve years to change American society and politics than any of his predecessors in the White House, save Abraham Lincoln.

    • The Early Years
    • The Great Depression
    • World War II

    Franklin D. Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York on January 30, 1882. He was the son of James Roosevelt and Sara Delano Roosevelt. His parents and private tutors provided him with almost all his formative education. He attended Groton (1896-1900), a prestigious preparatory school in Massachusetts, and received a BA degree in history from Harva...

    The Depression worsened in the months preceding Roosevelt's inauguration, March 4, 1933. Factory closings, farm foreclosures, and bank failures increased, while unemployment soared. Roosevelt faced the greatest crisis in American history since the Civil War. He undertook immediate actions to initiate his New Deal programs. To halt depositor panics,...

    By 1939, with the outbreak of war in Europe, Roosevelt was concentrating increasingly on foreign affairs. New Deal reform legislation diminished, and the ills of the Depression would not fully abate until the nation mobilized for war. When Hitler attacked Poland in September 1939, Roosevelt stated that, although the nation was neutral, he did not e...

  2. Faced with the Great Depression and World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt, nicknamed “FDR,” guided America through its greatest domestic crisis, with the exception of the Civil War, and its greatest foreign crisis.

  3. Apr 7, 2023 · His cloistered childhood left him unprepared for the rigors of boarding school and living away from home, and he struggled to fit in.

  4. Roosevelt informed Congress that the work of his new agency was of “definite, practical value, not only through the prevention of great present financial loss but also as a means of creating future national wealth”. At the same time, it would provide work for unemployed and unemployable young men.

  5. Oct 29, 2009 · From 1933 until 1941, President Roosevelt’s New Deal programs and policies did more than just adjust interest rates, tinker with farm subsidies and create short-term make-work programs.

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  7. The President and Mrs. Roosevelt decided that they did not have the time to enjoy their pets in the White House. Seven years later the President received a black Scottish terrier puppy as a gift and named him Murray, the Outlaw of Fala Hill.

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