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Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats republican Herbert Hoover in the run for president
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FDR becomes the first and only president (so far) to serve a third term as president of the United States.
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FDR makes his famous "Four Freedoms" address stating that people "everywhere in the world" should enjoy freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
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FDR signs Lend-Lease bill to fund countries battling the axis powers. This leads to $50.1 billion ($611 billion equivalent today) worth of supplies being shipped to Britain, France, China, and the Soviet Union over the next three and a half years.
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FDR secretely meets up with British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, in Newfoundland to draft the Atlantic Charter. This outlines goals for a postwar world including “no territorial changes made against the wishes of the people,” and “restoration of self-government to those deprived of it”.
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Japan's surprise attack on the US, which leads to the Infamy Speech. FDR has had the last straw with Axis Powers.
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FDR's speech about how the date December 7th, 1941 will live in infamy. US declares war on Japan.
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FDR takes America's focus and turns it towards Japan.
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FDR signs executive order 9906 which allowed the internment of Japanese Americans living in Hawaii and western states.
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Roosevelt comes face to face with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at the Tehran Conference. Here they discuss Operation Overload; a cross channel invasion of France.
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FDR chooses Dwight Eisenhower to lead allied forces to invade France.
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Britain and the US combine efforts to build a nuclear bomb into the Manhattan project.
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FDR gets elected for a historic fourth term as president.
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In the afternoon Roosevelt says “I have a terrific pain in the back of my head,” and slumps over in his chair. He is diagnosed with a massive cerebral hemorrhage (a stroke). Roosevelt dies at 3.35pm. His death came just as Allied tanks were closing in on Berlin. Roosevelt’s death shocks America and the world.
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Although FDR was not alive, the goal he worked towards for the majority of his presidency had been accomplished.
