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Eleanor, discovered personal letters between her husband and her social secretary (Lucy Mercer) when he retuned from a trip to Europe. She offered FDR a divorce, but his mother was adamant that there be no divorce, it was unacceptable. Eleanor made him cut it off (unsure if it really was cut off) and Eleanor stopped giving all physical attention to FDR. The affair became public in 1966 years after his death.
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While vacationing in Canada he contacted Polio which resulted in permanent paralysis from the waist down.
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Most usually attribute the start of the Great Depression to the sudden collapse of US stock market prices on this date. Some say it was a symptom rather than the acutal cause of the Great Depression.
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Signed into law; was also known as the 'Smoot-Hawley Tariff or Hawley-Smoot Tariff."
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This New Deal created a variety of programs designed to produce relief, recovery, and reform. The relief was through government jobs for the unemployed, recovery was through economic growth and reform was through regulation of Wall Street, banks and transportation. The economy improved rapidly fromt his from 1933 to 1937.
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Congress actually passed this part later in 1935, but FDR implemented it in the New Deal.
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FDR caleld this special congress because he told the members that unemployement could only be solved by direct recruiting by the Government itself. For the next 3 months he proposed and Congress passed a series of important bills called the "NEW DEAL"
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FDR supervised the mobilization of the US economy to support the Allied war efforts. He implemented an overall war strategy on 2 fronts that ended in the defeat of the Axis Powers and the development of the world's first atom bomb.
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