Chapter 10: War and Violence Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)

Franklin Delano was the thirty-second president of the United States and the only president ever elected to four consecutive terms in office. His innovative New Deal economic recovery plan guided America through the difficult years of the Great Depression, and his cooperation with Winston Churchill helped secure an Allied victory in World War II. He died in Warm Springs, Georgia, in 1945, ironically, three weeks before the Nazi surrender. Roosevelt's address to the House of Representatives after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, with such ringing phrases as "a date which will live in infamy," remains a classic call to action. Web Destinations Einstein's Letters to Roosevelt By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 TIME 100: Leaders & Revolutionaries Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library and Museum Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Pearl Harbor Address" (1941)

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