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Elected
Franklin Roosevelt defeats Herbert Hoover to become the 32nd President of the United States, receiving 57.4% of the popular vote. 10 days after the New York Stock Exchange crashed beginning the Great Depression.The Good Neighbor Policy was the common name (first expressed in the First Inaugural Address in 1933) for FDR's foreign policy with regard to Latin America. Under the new policy, the United States pledged that it would treat Latin American nations with respect and avoid intervening in the -
"Hundred Days"
Calls a special session of Congress and proclaims a bank holiday to begin March 6. Congress sits for "hundred days" from March 9 to June 16 and enacts into law the principal New Deal measures. 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. -
Emergency Relief Appropriation Act
Signs Emergency Relief Appropriation Act which provides for large-scale national works program for jobless employables. Major agencies of the program are the Public Works Administration and the Works Progress Administration, renamed Work Projects Administration in 1939. -
Signs the Social Security Act
Franklin Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act. During the Great Depression many older people were unemployed -
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2nd Re-Election
Franklin Roosevelt is re-elected to a third term with 54.7% of the vote,53 campaigning on a promise not to send American troops into foreign wars. -
Pearl Harbor
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. US declares war on Germany, Italy, and Japan. -
Executive Order 9066
Signs Executive Order 9066 which orders the evacuation of Japanese-Americans from the Pacific coast to relocation camps inland. More than 110,000 Japanese-Americans (64% of whom were American-born citizens) were required to abandon their homes and jobs and to live in 10 relocation camps. The United States Supreme Court finally ruled that continued detention without cause was unconstitutional, and the military relocation order was rescinded in December 1944. -
Second Washington Conference
Meets with Churchill at second Washing ton Conference and discusses the timing of the projected cross-channel invasion and Anglo-American cooperation in the development of the atomic bomb. Both men agree that American forces should become engaged in the European or African theater in 1942. -
Unconditional Surrender Formula
Becomes first president to leave the United States in wartime. Meets Church ill at the Casablanca Conference in North Africa and enunciates "unconditional surrender" formula, agrees to invasion of Sicily and strategic bombing in Europe. -
D-Day
The first of nearly 3 million Allied soldiers arrive on the northern shores of France. Overlord was the largest air, land, and sea operation undertaken. The landing included over 5,000 ships, 11,000 airplanes, and over 150,000 service men. -
3rd Re-Election
Franklin Roosevelt is elected to a fourth term with 53.4% of the popular vote. As a result of FDR's unprecedented four terms, the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in 1951, limiting all future presidents to two elected terms. -
Sudden Death
Roosevelt suddenly dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at Warm Spring, Georgia. Roosevelt is buried in the Rose Garden of his home at Hyde Park, New York.
