Franklin Roosevelt Timeline: Presidential Timeline of Important Events |
| 1933 | His inauguration as 32nd President of the United States |
| 1933 | The 20th Amendment was ratified changed the days for meetings of Congress and for the start of the President's term of office. |
| 1933 | The 21st Amendment was ratified, the Repeal of Prohibition. The Era of Prohibition lasted from 1920 to 1933 during which time the sale, production, importation, and transportation of all alcoholic beverages had bee banned in the US. |
| 1933 | During his first 100 days of his presidency he started his plans for a New Deal to help with a national recovery following the Great Depression. The New Deal measures included the creation of the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps), NRA (National Recovery Administration), and TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) |
| 1935 | The Social Security Act, an important element of the New Deal, established a system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment compensation laws. |
| 1936 | November 3, 1936: Franklin Roosevelt defeats Alfred Landon, winning re-election to a second term. |
| 1937 | The Court Packing Plan (The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937) was a controversial plan to expand the Supreme Court to 15 judges to make it more efficient. |
| 1939 | WW2 (1939-1945): Due to the Polices of Adolf Hitler WW2 started September 1, 1939 and would finally end on September 2, 1945 |
| 1940 | Lend-Lease Act: On March 11, 1940: Congress passes the Lend-Lease Act, enabling the US to aid the Allied Powers without entering into the war. |
| 1941 | Pearl Harbor: In 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, and the US enters the war |
| 1942 | The Battle of Midway: US victory in the Battle of Midway when American planes defeat a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands |
| 1942 | The President signs Executive Order 9066, imprisoning many Japanese-Americans living on American soil |
| 1944 | D Day: June 6, 1944, known as D Day, marked the date when nearly 3 million Allied soldiers invaded France. Paris is then liberated |
| 1944 | The Western Front: US and British forces launching Operation Market-Garden and the Battle of the Bulge |
| 1945 | The Death of Hitler and Germany surrenders: Adolf Hitler commits suicide on 30 April 1945 and Germany surrenders on May 7 |
| 1945 | The Yalta Conference: February 11, 1945 President Roosevelt meets with Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin in Yalta to negotiate the post-war future of Europe. |
| 1945 | The Death of the President: Franklin Roosevelt dies of a cerebral haemorrhage on Apr 12, 1945 in Warm Springs, Georgia. |
| 1945 | His presidency and term in office ends with his untimely death. The next US President was Harry S. Truman |
Franklin Roosevelt Timeline of important Events |