2. Biography/Early Life
O Born January 30, 1882
O Attended Harvard and married Eleanor Roosevelt 1905
O Lived as a lawyer in NY
O Won NY state senate election as democrat
O 1912 became assistant sec of Navy
O Chosen as VP with Cox but lost
O Contracted polio
O Elected governor NY 1928
O Elected President 1932
O Died April 12, 1945
3. First New Deal
O “Relief, Recovery Reform”
O Emergency Banking Act (1933)
O Glass Steagall Act/ FDIC (1933)
O Federal Emergency Relief Administration
-CCC and AAA
O NIRA (opposed by Supreme Court)
O Reduction in military spending 1934
O Withdrawal of pensions of Veterans
O BIG mistake, given back
4. Second New Deal
O Work Progress Administration
O Social Security Act
O National Labor Relations Act
O (Labor unions, Collective Bargaining, Strikes)
O American Liberty League criticism
5. Early Foreign Policy
O FDR hated imperialism
O Instituted Good Neighbor Policy
O Ended Latin American countries time as “protectorates
of the US
O In reaction to Anti-Comintern Pact btwn Germany and
Japan mandatory arms embargo
6. Ending Neutrality
O Quarantine Speech 1937
O Close relationship w/ Winston Churchill (Prime Minister
of Britain 1940)
O First break of neutrality = Destroyers for Bases
Agreement
O Lend Lease Act March 1941(Britain, China, and Soviet
Union)
O Arsenal of Democracy fireside chat and Four Freedoms
speech 1940-41
7. Reaction to Pearl Harbor
O December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor was attacked by the
Japanese
O Destroyed 16 warships
O Killed almost 3000 citizens
O Both Britain and US declared war day after
O Executive order 9066 removing Japanese citizens from
coast line 1942
O Tehran and Yalta conference
O United Nations
8. Death
O Vacationing in Warm Springs, Georgia
O Posing for a portrait
O Cerebral hemorrhage
O Death was sudden
O People were shocked the president who had lead them
through depression and World War II was dead
O Truman became president and was filled in on the
atomic bomb
O Thousands offered their goodbyes
9. FUN FACTS
O Only president to win election 4 times
O Married the niece of Theodore Roosevelt his fifth cousin
O Cheated on Eleanor with her secretary Lucy Mercer and
continued it even when she found out
O First president to speak on television
O Wore a dress until age 5
O First president to fly in an airplane
10. Citations
O Franklin D. Roosevelt Biography." bio.True story. A+E
Television Network, n.d.
Web. 5 June 2013. <http://www.biography.com/people/
franklin-d-roosevelt-9463381?page=2>.
O The White House. Whie House Histical Associaton, n.d. Web. 5
June 2013.
<http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/franklindroosevelt
>.
O Leuchtenburg, William E. "Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(1933-1945)." American President.org. University of
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