PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born in 1882 to a prominent Dutch family in upstate New York.
He attended Groton School (an elite boarding school in Massachusetts), and later Harvard College.
He began his political career in 1910, first serving in the New York State Senate, and later as the Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
In 1921 he was stricken with polio, an infectious disease causing numbness, pain or paralysis(inability to move) in the muscles. He lost his ability to use his legs.
Roosevelt offered numerous solutions to the Great Depression, one of the toughest times the U.S. ever witnessed. Over a quarter of the workforce were unemployed. One of his major achievements was the New Deal, a series of laws/acts to end the Great Depression.
In 1941, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Germany and Italy declared war on the U.S..
The U.S., under the leadership of Roosevelt, entered the war on the Allies' side(consisted mostly of the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union) The war was won on September 2, 1945, but sadly Roosevelt did not live to see the end of the war because he died on the 12th of April, 1945.
