The 43 Presidents
of the
United States of America

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

32nd President
1933 - 1945

Franklin Roosevelt was the thirty-second President of the United States. 

Important events during President Roosevelt's administrations were:

• The Federal Emergency Act was approved on May 12, 1933.

• The Tennessee Valley Authority was established on May 18, 1933.

• The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was created on June 16, 1933.

• The United States recognized the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) or Russia on November 16, 1933.

• The Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on December 5, 1933.

• The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was created on June 19, 1934.

• The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) was authorized on June 28, 1934.

• The Social Security Act was passed on August 14, 1935.

• Howard Hughes flew around the world in three days and nineteen hours in July of 1938.

• King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of England visited the United States in June of 1939.

• Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939.

• Britain and France declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939, which started World War II.

• Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of England on May 10, 1940.

• The Alien Registration Act was passed on June 28, 1940.

• It became a law on October 16, 1940 that all men between 21 and 35 had to register with selective service.

• Germany invaded Russia on June 22, 1941.

• President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill met off Newfoundland on August 9-12, 1941.

• Japan attacked Hawaii, Guam, and the Philippines on December 7, 1941.

•  The United States declared war against Japan on December 8, 1941.

• Germany and Italy declared war against he United States on December 11, 1941.  Then the United States declared war against Germany and Italy on the same day.

• Prime Minister Churchill came to the United States on a battleship on December 22, 1941.

• Prime Minister Churchill returned to England by airplane on January 14, 1942.

• The Women's Auxiliary Army Corps was created on May 14, 1942.

• Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt met at Washington, D.C. on June 18, 1942.

• Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt met again on January 14-24, 1943 in North Africa.

• The allied forces invaded Italy on September 9, 1943.

• Prime Minister Churchill of England, Premier Stalin of the USSR, and President Roosevelt met in Teheran, Iran from November 28 to December 1, 1943.

• American bombers attack Berlin on March 4, 1944.

• The D-Day invasion of France by the Allies took place on June 6, 1944.

• The G.I. Bill of Rights was approved on June 22, 1944.

• Prime Minister Churchill, Premier Stalin, and President Roosevelt conferred at Yalta in the Crimea.

Franklin Roosevelt was:

• the fourth President born in New York.

• the seventh President to die in office.

• the eighth President whose mother was alive when he became President.

• the first President whose mother could vote for him in the election.

• the fourth President to die during his term of natural causes.

• the first President elected for a third term.

• the first President elected for a fourth term.  (In 1951 the Twenty-second Amendment was adopted and now a President can only serve 2 terms.)

• the first President to be inaugurated in March and in January.

• the first President to visit South America as President.

• the first President to travel through the Panama Canal as President.

• the first President to visit Hawaii.

• the first President to appoint a woman to his cabinet.  Frances Perkins was Secretary of Labor in his administration.

• The first President to appoint a woman to represent the United States in a foreign country.  He appointed Ruth Bryan Owen as Minister to Denmark and Iceland.