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Jan 30, 1882

Franklin Roosevelt is born inHyde Park, NY.

1896Franklin Roosevelt leaves home to attendGroton Schoolin Groton, Massachusetts.

1900

Franklin Roosevelt moves to Cambridge, Massachusetts to attendHarvard College.

1905

Franklin Roosevelt moves to New York City, marriesEleanor Roosevelt,and enters

Columbia Law School.

Nov 8, 1910

Franklin Roosevelt is elected to the New York State Senate.

1913

Franklin Roosevelt is appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy under PresidentWoodrow

Wilson.

1920

Franklin Roosevelt runs as the Democratic candidate for Vice-President, alongside James M.

Cox. The ticket is defeated by RepublicansWarren G. HardingandCalvin Coolidge.

1921

Franklin Roosevelt contracts a paralytic disease while swimming in Maine.

1926

Franklin Roosevelt establishes apolio treatment centerin Warm Springs, Georgia.

Nov 6, 1928

Franklin Roosevelt is elected governor of New York.

Oct 29, 1929

TheNew York Stock Exchangecrashes, one of a series of events leading to theGreat

Depressionin the United States.

Nov 8, 1932

Franklin Roosevelt defeatsHerbert Hooverto become the 32nd President of the United States,

receiving 57.4% of the popular vote.51

1933

In the"First 100 Days,"FDR pushes fifteen legislative proposals through Congress; these

form the basis of theNew Deal.

1933

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In theFirst New Deal,the federal government provides "immediate relief" from the

Depressionby creating new public agencies to employ civilians, as well as regulate the

banking industry.

1935

In the Second New Deal, the federal government establishes additional agencies and programsincluding the WPA,Social Security,and the National Labor Relations Board.

Nov 3, 1936

Franklin Roosevelt defeatsAlfred Landon,winning re-election to a second term. He wins by a

landslide in the popular vote (60.8%) and trounces Landon in the Electoral College 523 to 8.52

Sep 1, 1939

Hitlerinvades Poland, sparkingWorld War II.

Nov 5, 1940

Franklin Roosevelt is re-elected to a third term with 54.7% of the vote,53campaigning on apromise not to send American troops into foreign wars.

Mar 11, 1940

Under President Roosevelt, Congress passes the Lend-Lease Act, allowing the US to aid the

Allied Powers without entering into the war.

Dec 7, 1941

Japan attacksPearl Harbor;US declares war on Germany, Italy, and Japan.

Feb 19, 1942

Franklin Roosevelt signsExecutive Order 9066,imprisoning many Japanese-Americans

living on American soil.

Jun 6, 1944

OnD-Day,the first of nearly 3 million Allied soldiers arrive on the northern shores of France.

Nov 7, 1944

Franklin Roosevelt is elected to a fourth term with 53.4% of the popular vote.54

Feb 11, 1945

Franklin Roosevelt meets withWinston ChurchillandJosef Stalinin Yalta to negotiate thepost-war future of Europe.

Apr 12, 1945

Franklin Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia.

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