Jan 1, 2010
Article abstract: Military significance: During World War II, Roosevelt served as commander in chief of the armed forces and planned with Great Britain and the Soviet Union strategies for the military defeat of Germany and Japan and for postwar collective security.
After being a New York state senator (1909-1911), assistant secretary of the navy (1913-1921), and governor of New York (1929-1933), Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to four terms as president of the United States (1933-1945). From 1933 to 1939, he coordinated a comprehensive New Deal program to...
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