President Roosevelt

Today we watched the remainder of the video and answered all of the questions given to us on the worksheet.

 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt became president on March 4, 1933 and held this title until his death in 1945. He was the only president to ever serve 4 terms. Before he became Mayor of New York and was diagnosed with polio, he was the Assistant Secretary of the Navy and founded the United States Navy Reserve. He played a very large role in the politics of our history, in particular, WW2. The video that we watched today showed us the moves FDR took before the US entered the war. On May 16, 1940 he asked for $1,182,000,000.00 in national defense funds. During this time he had already expanded the branches of the US military and supported countless projects that all lead towards war. A draft or lottery of men took place for service and numerous naval ships and planes were being built, some given to Britain in exchange for payment latter on. On December 8, 1941, Roosevelt declared war on Japan in response to the attack of Pearl Harbor.