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Franklin Roosevelt is elected to the New York State Senate
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Franklin D. Roosevelt is Born In Hyde Park, NY
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Roosevelt's Lifespan
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Franklin attends Groton School in groton, Massachusetts
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Moves to Cambridge, Massachusetts to attend Harvard College
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Moves to New York City, marries Eleanor Roosevelt, and enters Columbia Law School
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Franklin Roosevelt is appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President Woodrow Wilson
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Franklin Roosevelt runs as the Democratic candidate for Vice-President
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Franklin Roosevelt contracts a paralytic disease while swimming in Maine
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Franklin Roosevelt establishes a polio treatment center in Warm Springs, Georgia
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Franklin Roosevelt is elected governor of New York.
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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.
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Franklin Roosevelt defeats Herbert Hoover to become the 32nd President of the United States.
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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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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.