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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving US president and the only one to have served more than two terms, leading the country through the Great Depression and most of World War II.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was born on the 30th of January 1882 in Hyde Park, New York, and died on the 12th of April 1945. He was the son of businessman James Roosevelt I and Sara Ann Delano, born at the family estate of Springwood.
Franklin D. Roosevelt fell ill while vacationing at Campobello Island in August 1921 and was diagnosed with polio, which left him permanently paralyzed from the waist down. A 2003 study favored a diagnosis of Guillain-Barre syndrome, but historians still describe his paralysis by the original polio diagnosis.
The New Deal was Roosevelt's program to combat the Great Depression, categorized by historians as relief, recovery, and reform. It created agencies and laws including the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Works Progress Administration, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Social Security.
Roosevelt broke the two-term tradition set by George Washington because he believed only he could see the nation through the Nazi threat as Germany swept through Europe in 1940. There were no presidential term limits until 1951, so he was reelected in 1940 and again in 1944.
Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on the 7th of December 1941, killing 2,403 American servicemen and civilians. Roosevelt called for war in his Infamy Speech, Congress declared war on Japan in a nearly unanimous vote, and on the 11th of December Germany and Italy declared war on the United States.