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