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Franklin Delano Roosevelt grew up primarily in Massachusetts where he attended a private boarding school. FDR went on to Harvard College and it was there that he officially declared himself as a Democrat. In 1905, he studied law at Columbia University; however his attention soon shifted to politics. In 1910 he ran for New York state senate and won. He was then re-elected in 1912. By 1913 he joined the Wilson administration as secretary of the Navy. Then in 1920 the Democrat party named him its vice-presidential candidate. Despite the fact the James Cox FDR ticket lost, Roosevelt kept dominating politics.
In 1928, Roosevelt was elected Governor of New York. In 1929 after the stock market crashed FDR made many reforms to the state dealing with unemployment, pensions, limits on work hours, and massive public works projects. He was re-elected governor in 1930 and continued to make improvements in New York. It was then in 1932 that FDR made the decision to run for President. He proposed a “New Deal” to all Americans and wanted to make reforms across the country much like he did in New York. Roosevelt won by a landslide and took office.
Immediately, FDR took on the Great Depression with his New Deal program. In the New Deal’s “First One Hundred” days he took on the banking and financial sectors. Reforms like the EBRA instilled trust back into Americans towards the banking industry, which in return allowed banks that were well off enough to reopen for use. The Wagner Act allowed labor unions to organize and bargain collectively. And changes such as the Social Securities Act lent out a helping hand to the needy, aged, and unemployed. In 1936 FDR was re-elected as President.
On September 1, 1939 Germany invaded Poland. Britain and France retaliated by declaring war on Germany. World War II had begun. Roosevelt sent aid to the British and French forces, and sympathized for them. Then on December 7, 1941 the Japanese bombed the...
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