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Born in Hyde Park, New York which was near the Hudson Valley
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He moves to Cambrdge, Massachusetts to attend Harvard College
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Elected under the presidency of Woodrow Wilson
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Swims in river in Maine and contracts disease thata causes him to become paralyzed
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Creates and established Polio Treatment Center in Warm Springs, Georgia
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Roosevelt beats Herbert Hoover in preseidential election
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Roosevelt pushes three laws through the senate to form the basis of what will become the New Deal
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World War Two officially begins
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Japanese fleets bomb Pearl Harbor, leaving the US no option but to enter WWII
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Roosevelt is elected in for a fourth term of presidency with 54% majority vote
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Roosevelt dies from hemorrage in Warm Springs, Georgia