Challenges Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in the aftermath of the worldwide financial crisis triggered in part by the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The Great Depression soon achieved a depth ...

Part 2 of our timeline of America's first 44 Presidents ... Herbert Hoover 32. Franklin D. Roosevelt 33. Harry S. Truman 34. Dwight D. Eisenhower 35. John F. Kennedy 36. Lyndon B.

As Franklin D. Roosevelt took the oath of office on March 4, 1933, the United States was struggling through the darkest days of the Great Depression. A quarter of the nation’s workers were ...

Since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s earthshaking first 100 days in office, no president has matched the sheer drama and disruption of that 15-week sprint in 1933, which rewrote the relationship ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt had many Christmas traditions he took part in with his family and White House staff during his time in office. Roosevelt was born in 1882 in Hyde Park, New York, a place he ...

It was a speech President Franklin D. Roosevelt didn't expect to give. On a Sunday afternoon on December 7, 1941, our nation's 32nd president had just finished his lunch in his second-floor study ...

In 1933, President Franklin D Roosevelt enacted one of the biggest spending projects in history to drag the US out of the Great Depression. Show more In 1933, newly-elected US President Franklin D ...