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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: War
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October 8, 1941: Franklin Delano Roosevelt orders US vessels to fire upon German vessels on sight. Roosevelt blatantly lied to Congress and the American public on numerous occasions to try and get them to declare war on Germany.
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At about the same time, Roosevelt made one of his most important decisions. Instead of building up strength in England for an invasion of France in 1943 as the Joint Chiefs wanted, he ordered that French North Africa be taken in 1942. This delayed the invasion of France by a year, which could not be helped. Americans hated the Japanese so much because of Pearl Harbor that a real danger existed that the Pacific War would get top priority, even though Germany had to be beaten first since it posed the greater danger. Roosevelt wanted American forces engaged in battle with Germans to draw attention away from the Pacific. So it transpired that American troops began the liberation of Europe by invading North Africa in November 1942.
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Deficit spending had been recommended by some economists, most notably by British economist John Maynard Keynes, but Roosevelt ignored them. Some economists in retrospect have argued that the National Labor Relations Act and Agricultural Adjustment Administration were ineffective policies because they relied on price fixing.[12] The GNP was 34% higher in 1936 than in 1932 and 58% higher in 1940 on the eve of war. That is, the economy grew 58% from 1932 to 1940 in 8 years of peacetime, and then grew 56% from 1940 to 1945 in 5 years of wartime. Total employment during Roosevelt's term expanded by 18 million jobs, with an average annual increase in jobs during his administration of 5.3%. However, the economic recovery did not absorb all the unemployment Roosevelt inherited. In his first term, unemployment fell by two-thirds from 25% when he took office to 9.1% in 1937 but then stayed high until it vanished during the war.
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By March 1945, with victory in Europe nearly at hand, Franklin Roosevelt had been president for more than twelve years, but the war and the office were taking their toll on his health. Recognizing his ailing condition, Roosevelt decided to leave for a vacation to the Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia, a spot that usually improved his health. He arrived there on the afternoon of March 30.
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Roosevelt's goals in the Pacific were to aid China against Japanese aggression and to deter Japan from attacking the Soviets through Siberia. After Japan occupied northern French Indo-China in late 1940, he authorized increased aid to the China. In July 1941, after Japan occupied the remainder of Indo-China, the U.S. cut off the sales of oil.[27] Japan ... lost more than 90% of its oil supply and had to rely on stockpiles. Roosevelt continued negotiations with the Japanese government in the hope of averting war. Meanwhile he started shifting the long-range B-17 bomber force to the Philippines, where it could threaten the fire-bombing of Japanese cities.
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The voters elected Franklin Delano Roosevelt president four times. Only death, it seemed, could remove him from office. By the time he died of a cerebral hemorrhage on April 12, 1945, the nation had, on the strength of a wartime economic boom, emerged from the Depression. Germany was in ruins, and the victory of democracy over fascism was virtually assured. Many of the Americans who mourned the death of their president would remember him forever as the man who saved their jobs, their homes, their farms, and their way of life when America stood at the brink of disaster.
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