Franklin D. Roosevelt served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945, longer than any other president, and led the New Deal program of relief, recovery and reform that responded to the Great Depression, including the Social Security Act of 1935, laying much of the institutional foundation of the American welfare state. In February 1942, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he signed Executive Order 9066, which authorized the forced removal and incarceration of roughly 120,000 Japanese Americans, most of them United States citizens, in internment camps for the duration of the Second World War.
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Advocated
Roosevelt's New Deal, especially the Social Security Act of 1935, extended organized social-insurance welfare-state provision to the United States for the first time at the federal level.
Source Franklin D. Roosevelt (Miller Center)
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Source The Avalon Project, Yale Law School: Atlantic Charter, August 14, 1941
Founded
Roosevelt coined the term United Nations at the December 1941 Arcadia Conference and is considered a founder of the UN, though he died in April 1945, weeks before the San Francisco Conference concluded the Charter.
Source United Nations (Wikipedia)
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1. Franklin D. Roosevelt (Wikipedia)
2. Franklin D. Roosevelt (Miller Center)
Miller Center, University of VirginiaEntity description, gender reference sentence
Franklin D. Roosevelt served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945, longer than any other president, and led the New Deal program of relief, recovery and reform that responded to the Great Depression, including the Social Security Act of 1935, laying much of the institutional foundation of the American welfare state.
- Presidential biography
- Advocated: Welfare State, Presidential biography, the New Deal
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A&E Television Networks (History.com)Overview of Executive Order 9066 and internmentView the Source United Nations (Wikipedia)
The Avalon Project, Yale Law School: Atlantic Charter, August 14, 1941
The Avalon Project, Yale Law SchoolDrafted: Atlantic Charter, Opening paragraphQuote, Drafted: Atlantic Charter, Opening paragraph
The President of the United States of America and the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill , representing His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, being met together, deem it right to make known certain common principles
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