Franklin D. Roosevelt: From the New Deal to the Second World War
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50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the life and political career of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States. When Roosevelt was first elected in 1932, the USA was in the midst of the Great Depression, a major economic crisis. Thanks to a series of progressive, interventionist measures known collectively as the New Deal, the new president was able to set the economy on the path to recovery and drastically reduce unemployment. He also steered his country through the Second World War and played a crucial role in the establishment of the postwar world order, notably through his contribution to the creation of the United Nations.
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• Find out about Roosevelt’s political career, from his days as governor of the state of New York to his four terms as president
• Understand the main programmes of the New Deal and their impact on the American economy
• Learn about Roosevelt’s leadership during the Second World War and find out how he contributed to the peace process
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Key information
Born: 30 January 1882 in Hyde Park (New York).
Died: 12 April 1945 in Warm Springs (Georgia).
Political party: Democratic Party.
Election dates:
8 November 1932;
3 November 1936;
5 November 1940;
7 November 1944.
Time in office: 12 years.
Main achievements:
The New Deal in response to the Great Depression.
The USA’s entry into the Second World War on the Allied side.
Introduction
Franklin D. Roosevelt is the only president of the USA to have been elected for four consecutive terms, and now ranks alongside George Washington (1732-1799) and Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) as one of the country’s most famous and revered presidents.
He was born in 1882, was a member of the Democratic Party, and played a crucial role on the national and international stage in the 1930s and 1940s. He began his political career as governor of the state of New York, but his reputation rests on his actions as president. He was first elected three years after the 1929 Wall Street Crash, which plunged the USA into the Great Depression, and implemented the New Deal, an interventionist programme which revived the country’s economy. He is also remembered for bringing the USA’s isolationist policy to an end following the Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbor naval base in December 1941. After bringing his country into the war, Roosevelt, as commander-in-chief of the US army, played a central role in the Allied victory. At the end of the war he attended the Yalta Conference (February 1945) and laid the foundations for the United Nations.
After he contracted polio in the 1920s, Roosevelt’s lower limbs were left paralysed. He retired from the presidency in March 1945 due to his declining health, and died of a massive brain haemorrhage at his home in Georgia on 12 April. His death sent shockwaves across the US and around the world. As stipulated in the United States Constitution, it was left to his vice-president, Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), to serve the remaining three years of his term and put an end to the war.
Biography
A privileged upbringing
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on 30 January 1882 to a wealthy aristocratic family. His father, James Roosevelt (1928-1900), was descended from Dutch immigrants who arrived in America in the 17th century, while his mother, Sara Ann Delano (1854-1941), whose family had also immigrated during that era, had Franco-Luxembourgish roots. Thanks to his mother’s business interests, in particular in the opium trade with China, the future president inherited a vast fortune.
The young Franklin spend his childhood in the countryside at Hyde Park, around 60 miles from New York City, and abroad, particularly in Europe, where he learnt French and German. After being home-schooled as a child, from the age of 14 he attended the prestigious Groton School in Massachusetts, which emphasised the values of Christian duty, charity and patriotism. He enrolled at Harvard in 1889 to study for his BA, then continued his studies at Columbia University Law School, but lacked interest and soon dropped out.