Franklin D. Roosevelt

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4 related events

1. 1
   1929 – 1939Great Depressionrelated figure

   An economic crisis that began with the 1929 crash on Wall Street spread around the world, collapsing production and trade and throwing millions out of work. How nations met the crisis set democracies and totalitarian states on different paths.

2. 2
   1933 – 1939New Dealleader

   Taking office in the depths of the Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt launched the New Deal, using active government intervention to bring relief, recovery and reform.

3. 3
   1941Attack on Pearl Harborrelated figure

   Japanese naval aircraft made a surprise attack on the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. America entered the war, which spread across the Pacific (the Pacific War).

4. 4
   1945Yalta Conferencediplomat

   Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin met at Yalta in Crimea and agreed on the occupation of Germany, the founding of the UN and Soviet entry into the war against Japan, laying the foundations of the post-war order and the Cold War.

People who appear alongside

• Herbert Hoover1874 – 1964

  31st US president (1929–1933), whose first year in office brought the stock market crash and the Great Depression

• Yamamoto Isoroku1884 – 1943

  Commander of Japan’s Combined Fleet who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Midway operation; shot down over the South Pacific in 1943

• Winston Churchill1874 – 1965

  British prime minister (1940–1945, 1951–1955) who led Britain’s resistance through the Battle of Britain and named the “Iron Curtain” in 1946

• Joseph Stalin1878 – 1953

  General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party who ruled the USSR from the late 1920s until his death, led the war against Germany and drew Eastern Europe into the Soviet bloc

Themes this person appears in

• Republican China and Imperial Japan1912 – 1949

  The age when the Republic of China, born of the 1911 Revolution, passed through warlord division, the May Fourth Movement, the United Front and the Northern Expedition, fought Japan’s invasion and split in civil war — as Japan moved from Taishō democracy through the Manchurian Incident and military coups to the war in China and the Co-Prosperity Sphere, and colonized Korea resisted through the March First Movement and armed struggle

• The Great Depression and Totalitarianism1919 – 1939

  From the Washington Conference to the invasion of Poland — two decades in which the age of international cooperation collapsed in the Depression, fascism, Nazism and Stalinism rose, and the world slid into war again

• World War II1939 – 1945

  From the invasion of Poland to the surrender of Japan — the largest war in human history, across Europe, Asia and the Pacific

• The Cold War1945 – 1991

  From Yalta to the dissolution of the Soviet Union — half a century in which two blocs led by the US and the USSR divided the world