FDR

New Deal architect

FDR is the common abbreviation for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, who served from 1933 until his death in 1945—the only president elected to four terms.

FDR led the country through the Great Depression and most of World War II.

The initials became so associated with him that FDR functions almost as a name itself: FDR's New Deal transformed American government.

NewDeal

recovery

Regaining what was lost

reformImprove by correcting faults
reliefEasing of distress
TVAFederal power authority

WPA · PWA · NRA · AAA · FDIC · SEC · unemployment · banking · infrastructure · labor

president

commander-in-chief

Highest military authority holder

inaugurationFormal beginning ceremony
DemocratBlue party supporter
wheelchairSeated conveyance for mobility-impaired

polio · Eleanor · administration · elections · landslide · cabinet · veto · thirty-second · governor · campaigns

wartime

D-Day

1944 Normandy invasion

AlliesWWII's victorious coalition
AxisWartime fascist alliance
Lend-LeaseWartime military aid program

Churchill · Stalin · Yalta · Tehran · mobilization · homefront · rationing · Pacific

legacy

memorial

Thing preserving remembrance

monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
dimeU.S. ten-cent coin
transformativeCausing major change

realignment · coalition · liberalism · precedent · term-limits

FDR

recovery

commander-in-chief

D-Day

memorial

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