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Franklin Roosevelt is born in Hyde Park, NY. Yes he was in a dress, it was a tradition to put boys in a dress back then even until they were seven years old.
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Franklin Roosevelt moves to Cambridge, Massachusetts to attend Harvard College. The picture was taken his senior year at Harvard
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FDR marries Eleanor Roosevelt. Picture is from the wedding.
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Franklin Roosevelt is elected to the New York State Senate.
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Franklin Roosevelt is appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President Woodrow Wilson. He is on the far left in the picture and is standing on the USS Dolphin.
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Dr. Robert Lovett, diagnosed FDR with infantile paralysis (i.e. polio). The picture is a letter that a little boy wrote to him about his polio.
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Franklin Roosevelt establishes a polio treatment center in Warm Springs, Georgia. The image is of him swimming at his treatment center
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The New York Stock Exchange crashes, one of a series of events leading to the Great Depression in the United States. Image is the headline on a newspaper article
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Franklin Roosevelt defeats Herbert Hoover to become the 32nd President of the United States, receiving 57.4% of the popular vote. Picture is of FDR at his inauguration.
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In the "First 100 Days," FDR pushes fifteen legislative proposals through Congress; these form the basis of the New Deal.
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In the First New Deal, the federal government provides "immediate relief" from the Depression by creating new public agencies to employ civilians, as well as regulate the banking industry.
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In the Second New Deal, the federal government establishes additional agencies and programs including the WPA, Social Security, and the National Labor Relations Board.
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Franklin Roosevelt defeats Alfred 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.
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Hitler invades Poland, sparking World War II.
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Franklin Roosevelt is re-elected to a third term with 54.7% of the vote, campaigning on a promise not to send American troops into foreign wars.
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor; US declares war on Germany, Italy, and Japan.
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Franklin Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, imprisoning many Japanese-Americans living on American soil.
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On D-Day, the first of nearly 3 million Allied soldiers arrive on the northern shores of France.
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Franklin Roosevelt is elected to a fourth term with 53.4% of the popular vote.
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Franklin Roosevelt meets with Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin in Yalta to negotiate the post-war future of Europe.
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Franklin Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia. PIcture is from his funeral.
