Franklin+D.+Roosevelt

=Franklin D. Roosevelt =

he was born in 1882 at Hyde Park, New York now a national historic site he attended Harvard University and Columbia Law School.


 * RISKING IMPEACHMENT**

when world war 2 erupted in the fall of 1939, U.S president Franklin Delano Roosevelt was faced with a difficult dilemma.he believed that the threat of Nazism was a real one and not just for Europe but for the united states and the rest of the world a majority of Americans however were isolationists and they wanted nothing to do with any foreign wars however when France surrendered to Germany in June 1940, Britain stood alone against Adolf Hitler (number one).conferences were set up between American and British political and military officials.Roosevelt and British prime minister Winston Churchill number 3 even agreed on broad post-war goals in the Atlantic charter.announced in august 1941it called for political freedom

The strategy of the united states and great Britain was to hold off the Japanese in the pacific and defeat Hitler first.well into 1942, The news in the pacific was gloomy, The Philippines had fallen,along with Hong Kong,Singapore,and many other American, British, And dutch bases.but japan was spreading its forces too thin throughout the pacific island hopping attacking the most important islands and leaving the others to eventually run short of food.the war in Europe was progressing.the soviet union had been double crossed by Hitler and was fighting along a huge front.
 * THE WAR YEARS**

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The spring of 1954 would would bring peace closer and closer.and then, On April 12,1945 Roosevelt told a friend in warm spring, Georgia "i have terrific headache.".he never recovered. when the Hitler heard the news of Roosevelt's death in his Berlin bunker, He was overjoyed
 * THE FINAL DAYS OF WORLD WAR 2**

Even after his death, Roosevelt influenced the process influenced the process of world peace. The united states had chose to stay out of the league of nations following world war 1 .the new organizations would be called the united nations. Roosevelt made sure that both prominent republicans and democrats were including in the planning meetings.
 * ROOSEVELT'S LEGACY**

1. THE WORLD WAR 2 100 A RANKING OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL FIGURES OF THE SECOND WAS AUTHOR HOWARD J. LANGER


 * -JOSIE MENDEZ!***