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