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Wilson wins 435 electoral votes and 42% of the popular vote.
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Wilson coins the term "he kept us out of war" and shortly after his close re-election, enters the U.S. into WWI
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Wilson enters the United States into the Great War to make the world "safe for democracy"
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Wilson introduces his "Fourteen Points" to Congress
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Harding won the election with 404 electoral votes and 60% of the popular vote.
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Newspapers praised Harding and used his campaign slogan "Less government in business and more business in government."
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Word had reached Harding that his administration was corrupt and using their political positions for their own interests.
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Harding dies of a stroke in San Francisco.
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Coolidge is rises to the presidency after Harding dies of a stroke.
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Coolidge calls for isolation in foreign policy, and for tax cuts, economy, and limited aid to farmers
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Coolidge wins election on his own accord with 382 electoral votes and 54% of the popular vote
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Hoover is elected for the presidency with 444 electoral votes and 58% of the popular vote,
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Hoover announced that while he would keep the Federal budget balanced, cut taxes and expand public works spending
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Roosevelt is elected president with 472 electoral votes and 57% of the popular vote.
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FDR proposed a sweeping program to bring recovery to business and agriculture, relief to the unemployed and to those in danger of losing farms and home
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Social Security, heavier taxes on the wealthy, new controls over banks and public utilities, and an enormous work relief program for the unemployed
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FDR enters the U.S. into WWII, directing organization of the Nation's manpower and resources for global war.
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Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrage in Warm Springs, Georgia.
