Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin delano Roosevelt was born in 1882, Hype park, new york, which is now a national historical site for people to visit. He attended Harvard University and went to Columbia law school. He married his wife Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17th 1905, which is now known as saint patrick´s day. Franklin admired his fifth cousin Theodore Roosevelt who was the United state’s 26th president, and entered public service through politics in 1910. Then in 1921 at age 39 he was diagnosed with poliomyelitis. Poliomyelitis is an infectious disease that affects the central nervous system in the brain and can cause paralysis that can be temporary or permanent. But Franklin fought through the disease and started to put his legs
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Roosevelt worked fast and by the first hundred days he had made a program to employ more people and to bring the stock market back up since it had fallen in recent october 1929. By 1935 the U.S had shown some major recovery due to the program, but bankers and businessmen were mad that the program would fall and the U.S would lose all their money and it would get worse. Finally in 1936 he was reelected by a top heavy margin, he fought hard but ended up losing the supreme court battle. Franklin had come up with one more policy to help him win over the congress, it was called the ¨good neighbor¨ which neutralised the legislator and cept the nation from going it to war. It was going good and the U.S was staying out of trouble until France[a world war 1 allie] fell and england began to siege, Franklin sent many soldiers to aid the wounded ever since the Germans and France started to battle over land in 1939. Roosevelt Promised that the U.S would stay out of this war and only send aid, That was true until Japan attacked Pearl harbor, Hawaii 1941 in a terrorist attack that lasted 2 hours, after that Franklin and the congress declared war on Japan and the real war began. 4 years later the war was coming to an end and so was Roosevelt, his