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The WPA: Antidote to the Great Depression?
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in March 1933, estimates of the number of jobless workers in the United...
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The Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II in the American West
The Great Depression and World War II, far and away the worst economic calamity and the...
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The Great Depression: An Overview
Herbert Hoover got many things wrong about the great economic calamity that destroyed his presidency and his historical reputation, but he...
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Eleanor Roosevelt as First Lady
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), one of the most admired women in American history, acted as first lady from 1933 until 1945, longer than any other presidential...
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Neutrality Act of 1939
Roosevelt signed the Neutrality Act of 1939, which ended the arms embargo and authorized “cash-and-carry” exports to belligerent nations, allowing Allied powers to purchase weapons.
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US entered World War II
After an address by President Roosevelt calling the Pearl Harbor attack “unprovoked and dastardly,” Congress made a formal declaration of war against Japan.
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Casablanca Conference
Roosevelt and Churchill met in Casablanca, Morocco, and approved the policy of unconditional surrender. The trip made Roosevelt the first sitting president to both travel to Africa and leave the country during war.
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Meeting of Big Three in Yalta
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill met at the Black Sea Resort of Yalta to discuss plans for defeating Germany and postwar occupation.