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Meeting of Big Three in Yalta
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill met at the Black Sea Resort of Yalta to discuss plans for defeating Germany and postwar occupation.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt re-elected
Franklin D. Roosevelt won re-election by beating out Kansas Republican Alfred Landon.
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Executive Order #9066
President Roosevelt signed Executive Order #9066, which authorized the designation of military areas “from which any or all persons may be excluded.” The order was used to remove Japanese Americans to internment camps.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt re-elected to fourth term
Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to a record fourth term in office when he defeated Republican Thomas E. Dewey.
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First woman appointed to president’s Cabinet
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced the appointment of Frances Perkins as the secretary of labor, the first woman appointed to a president’s Cabinet.
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Roosevelt Recession
The economy relapsed in the “Roosevelt Recession.” Encouraged by the successes he saw resulting from New Deal programs, President Roosevelt felt the economy had turned around and he cut spending. At that point, companies failed, unemployment rose, and the stock market fell. Roosevelt responded with a new spending program, and the economy largely returned to pre-1937 levels by the middle of 1938.
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Social Security Act
President Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act, which established benefits for the elderly, the blind, the handicapped, dependent women and children, and the unemployed.
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Atlantic Charter
President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued the Atlantic Charter, a joint statement on behalf of the United States and Britain that highlighted the two nations’ “common principles” and plans for cooperation in the creation of “a better future for the world.”
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Franklin D. Roosevelt re-elected to third term
Incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to a third term in office over Republican nominee Wendell Willkie.
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Tehran Conference
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin met in Iran to discuss strategy and cooperation. The three leaders agreed to coordinate a Soviet offensive and an Allied landing at Normandy, and Stalin agreed to enter the war against Japan once Hitler was defeated.