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FDR!

By KRYSADA89
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president

    Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president

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    Important Events in FDR's Life

  • In the "First 100 Days," FDR pushes fifteen legislative proposals through Congress; these form the basis of the New Deal.

  • FDR inaugurated

    FDR inaugurated

    He addresses the nation on his plans to fight the depression stating that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

  • Signs the Economy Act

    This reduced the salaries of federal employees.

  • Signs Home Owners Refinancing Act

    This creates Home Owners Loan Corporation to refinance home mortgage debts for non-farm owners.

  • Signs Banking Act

    Ceates Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for guaranteeing individual bank deposits.

  • Recognizes the Soviet Union.

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

  • Asks Congress to enact legislation to assist the needy and unemployed.

  • Sets up National Youth Administration to provide jobs for youths aged 16 to 25.

  • Proclaims U.S. neutrality following Italy's invasion of Ethiopia.

  • Roosevelt is nominated for a second term at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Running mate is again John N. Garner.

  • Roosevelt is reelected, defeating Alfred M. Land on of Kansas.

  • Asks Congress for legislation to close tax loop-holes used "by a minority of very rich indi­viduals."

  • Calls special session of Congress for November 15, urging legislation on maximum hours, minimum wages and other matters.

  • Asks Congress for additional emergency recovery aid to combat the business recession that began in August 1937.

  • Urges peaceful solution to the Czechoslovak crisis.

  • Signs the emergency appropriation bill for national defense.

  • Pledges full support for any American nation which is attacked by hemispheric outsiders.

  • Sends message to Hitler and Mussolini seeking formal assurance that they will not invade 31 independent nations.

  • Becomes first president to appear on televi­sion, addressing the opening ceremonies of the New York World’s Fair.

  • Under President Roosevelt, Congress passes the Lend-Lease Act, allowing the US to aid the Allied Powers without entering into the war.

  • Elected to a third term, defeating Wendell Willkie.

  • Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.

  • He asks Congress to declare war on Japan.

  • Germany and Italy declare war on the United States.

  • Franklin Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, imprisoning many Japanese-Americans living on American soil.

  • FDR decides to execute TORCH, the invasion of north Africa.

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

  • Roosevelt inaugurated for fourth time.

  • Franklin Roosevelt meets with Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin in Yalta to negotiate the post-war future of Europe.

  • Roosevelt dies at Warm Spring, Georgia.