Roosevelt

New Deal

Depression-era reform agenda

• Great Depression1930s global economic crisis
• fireside chatsInformal presidential broadcasts
• polioParalytic viral infection

Yalta Conference · Manhattan Project · WWII · Allied Powers · Four Freedoms · Pearl Harbor · Civilian Conservation Corps · Social Security Act · Lend-Lease Act · Tennessee Valley Authority

Franklin

Surname or locality

• TheodoreMasculine name, Greek origin
• FDRDepression-era presidential initials
• White HouseOfficial presidential residence

commander-in-chief · inauguration · administration · executive · federal · election · Democrat · Republican · presidency · Oval Office

monument

Structure honoring someone remembered

• memorialThing preserving remembrance
• statueThree-dimensional sculpted likeness
• Mount RushmoreCarved presidential memorial

dime · aircraft carrier · national park · library · museum · namesake · commemorative · tribute · Hyde Park · stamp

reform

Improve by correcting faults

• trust-bustingDissolving illegal monopolies
• conservationPreventing waste or loss
• regulationOfficial rules governing conduct

antitrust · labor rights · suffrage · minimum wage · unionization · child labor laws · direct democracy · progressivism · muckrakers · FDA

visionary

Imaginative planner of futures

• statesmanRespected political leader
• diplomatOfficial foreign representative
• commanderPerson with authority over others

governor · reformer · conservationist · orator · strategist · patriarch · charismatic · decisive · resilient · inspiring

• 1940sWWII, D-Day, Pearl Harbor, Normandy, VE Day
• 20th CenturyWorld War I aftermath, Cuban Missile Crisis, atomic bomb, New Deal, Nazi Germany
• World War IIAllies, Nazi, Hitler, Axis, Third Reich
• WWIID-Day, Pearl Harbor, Normandy, Hiroshima, Holocaust
• American IconsAbraham Lincoln, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King Jr.
• Anglo-American Relationsspecial relationship, Five Eyes, NATO alliance, Lend-Lease, intelligence sharing