Who is Franklin Roosevelt?

Franklin Roosevelt was elected during the height of the Great Depression in 1932 and remained President until his death in 1945. During his period of presidency, he oversaw an expansion of the Federal Government and helped America lose its isolationist stance as it joined World War Two and helped formulate the United Nations. He was an influential figure in both American and world politics. In 1921, Roosevelt contracted polio and became paralyzed from the waist down. He tried various therapies, including hydrotherapy, to no avail. During World War II, Roosevelt was forced to declare war on Japan after the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. In 1942, Roosevelt ordered internment of Japanese-American civilians. Additionally, the first atom bomb was developed as part of Roosevelt’s war strategy. Even with all of these terrible developments, the economy began to prosper as new jobs were created because of the war. Roosevelt died unexpectedly from a massive brain hemorrhage in April 1945, just before the first meeting of the United Nations.

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