Franklin D Roosevelt questions?

Question

Why did he refuse to support the London Economic Conference?

What was the internationalist action he took within his first term in office?

What was the US motivated by when they promised to grant the Philippines independence?

What was the first casualty of the 1939 hitler-Stalin nonaggression treaty?

-poland, czechoslovakia, austria, belgium, or the jews?

During WWII, the US saved about how many Jews from Nazism?

What motivated FDR to run for a thrid term in 1940?

Answer 1

this is all of my information i have about him

in full FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT, byname FDR 32nd president of the United States (1933-45), the only person to be elected to the office four times. In an effort to spur the nation's recovery from the Great Depression, he expanded the federal government's powers through a series of programs and reforms known as the New Deal. He was also a major Allied leader during World War II. The modern role of the United States government, in both its domestic and foreign policies, owes much to the changes that Roosevelt helped bring about.

Early life and political growth

Roosevelt was the only son of James and Sara Delano Roosevelt. The Roosevelts lived in unostentatious and genteel luxury, dividing their time between the Hudson River Valley and European resorts. They often took young Franklin to Europe; he was taught privately at home and was reared to be a gentleman, responsible toward those less fortunate. At 14, Roosevelt, a rather shy youth, entered Groton School (Groton, Massachusetts), modeled after the great public schools of England, where wealthy young men were trained to exercise Christian stewardship through public service.

After he entered Harvard in 1900, Franklin Roosevelt threw himself into undergraduate activities. His strenuous extracurricular and social life left him relatively little time for his academic studies, in which his record was undistinguished. He was, however, influenced by his economics professors, who modified traditional laissez-faire views with advocacy of government regulation of economic activities, but, even more, Roosevelt fell under the spell of the progressive president, his glamorous distant relative Theodore Roosevelt, a fifth cousin.

During his final year at Harvard, Franklin became engaged to Theodore Roosevelt's niece, Eleanor Roosevelt, who was then active in settlement work in New York City; they were married on March 17, 1905. Eleanor helped open young Roosevelt's eyes to the deplorable living conditions of the underprivileged in the slums.

New York social life interested Roosevelt more than did his studies at Columbia University School of Law. As soon as he passed the New York bar examination, he discontinued his schooling. This attitude of indifference toward the legal profession carried over into Roosevelt's years as a clerk with the distinguished Wall Street firm of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, defense counsel in several spectacular antitrust cases.

Early political activities

His admiration for his cousin Theodore, who continued to urge young men of substance to enter public service, led Roosevelt toward politics. His opportunity came in 1910 when the Democratic leaders of Dutchess County, New York, persuaded him to undertake an apparently futile campaign for the state senate. Roosevelt, whose branch of the family had always been Democratic, hesitated only long enough to make sure his distinguished Republican relative would not speak against him.

State senator

He campaigned so strenuously that, with the aid of a Republican schism and his famous name, he won the election. Roosevelt, not quite 29, quickly won statewide and even some national attention by leading a small group of Democratic insurgents who refused to vote for the nominee of Tammany Hall, the New York City organization. For three months Roosevelt helped hold the insurgents firm, until Tammany switched to another candidate.

Roosevelt became the foremost champion in the New York Senate of the upstate farmers, and in the process he converted to the full program of progressive reform. From the New York City legislators, whom he had earlier scorned and now continued to fight, he learned much of the give-and-take of politics. Among them were James J. Walker, later mayor of New York City; Robert Ferdinand Wagner, who became a leading U.S. senator; and Alfred E. Smith, later governor of New York. Roosevelt gradually abandoned his patrician airs and attitude of superiority.

Before the end of 1911, Roosevelt supported the presidential boom for Gov. Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey, the leading Democratic progressive. An attack of typhoid fever kept Roosevelt from participating in the 1912 campaign, but, even without making a single public appearance, he was reelected to the state senate. This was because of publicity by an Albany newspaperman, Louis McHenry Howe, who saw in the tall, handsome young Roosevelt a promising politician. Howe served Roosevelt for the rest of his life with a jealous loyalty.

Assistant secretary of the navy

For his work on behalf of Wilson, Roosevelt was rewarded in March 1913 with an appointment as assistant secretary of the navy under Josephus Daniels. Roosevelt loved the sea and naval traditions, and he knew more about them than did his superior, with whom he was frequently impatient. Roosevelt tried with mixed success to bring reforms to the navy yards, which were under his jurisdiction, meanwhile learning to negotiate with labour unions among the civilian employees. After war broke out in Europe, Roosevelt became a vehement advocate of preparedness; following U.S. entrance, he built a reputation as an effective administrator. In the summer of 1918 he made an extended tour of naval bases and battlefields overseas. During much of his seven years as assistant secretary, he had been less than loyal to Daniels, but in the end he came to appreciate his superior's skill in dealing with Southern congressmen and his solid worth as an administrator.

Paralytic attack

At the 1920 Democratic convention Roosevelt was nominated for vice president. He campaigned vigorously with the presidential nominee, James M. Cox, on behalf of U.S. entrance into the League of Nations. After a Republican landslide, Roosevelt became a vice president of the Fidelity & Deposit Company of Md., a bonding company, entered into numerous business schemes (some of a speculative nature), and remained active in Democratic politics. Suddenly, in August 1921, while on vacation at Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Roosevelt was severely stricken with poliomyelitis. He suffered intensely and for some time was almost completely paralyzed, but he soon began predicting (as he did for some years) that he would quickly regain the use of his legs. His mother wished him to retire to Hyde Park, but his wife and his secretary, Louis Howe, felt it essential to his morale that he remain active in his career and in politics. Because Roosevelt could not himself go to political gatherings, his wife attended for him, acting as his eyes and ears (a service she frequently performed for him during the rest of his life). Under the tutelage of Howe, she overcame her shyness and became an effective political worker and speaker. Because he could not run for office for the time being, Roosevelt was able to function effectively as a sort of premature "elder statesman," trying to promote unity between the urban and rural wings of the Democratic Party. Himself a rural Democrat, he nominated Gov. Al Smith of New York, the favourite of the city faction, at the 1924 and 1928 Democratic conventions.

Smith urged Roosevelt to run for governor of New York in 1928 to strengthen the ticket. Roosevelt was reluctant; he still could not walk without braces and assistance. In the years since 1921 he had worked incessantly to try to regain the use of his legs--for several winters he swam in warm Florida waters and, beginning in 1924, in the mineralized water at Warm Springs, Georgia. Wishing to share with others the beneficent effect of the warm water and a systematic program of therapy, Roosevelt in 1927 established the Warm Springs Foundation, a nonprofit institution for the care of polio victims. He wished to develop Warm Springs further and to continue treatments in the hope of regaining full use of his legs.

Governor of New York

Nevertheless, despite these concerns and his feeling that 1928 was not a propitious year to run on the Democratic ticket, Roosevelt succumbed to strong persuasion and accepted the nomination. When he began campaigning by automobile, he demonstrated that he had retained his youthful buoyance and vitality; he also showed that he had matured into a more serious and human person. Opponents raised the question of his health, but his vigorous campaigning effectively disposed of the issue. Smith was defeated in Herbert Hoover's landslide, and he failed to carry New York state; but Roosevelt won by 25,000 votes.

Succeeding Smith as governor, Roosevelt decided he must establish his own type of administration. He did not keep Smith's closest adviser nor did he depend upon Smith for advice. Smith, already stung by his defeat for the presidency, was hurt and alienated. Whereas Smith had built his reputation on administrative reform, Roosevelt concentrated upon a program to give tax relief to farmers and to provide cheaper public utilities for consumers. The appeal of this program in upstate New York, coupled with the effects of the deepening Depression, led to Roosevelt's reelection in 1930 by the overwhelming plurality of 725,000 votes. (See Great Depression.)

During his first term as governor, Roosevelt's policies, except on the power issue, were scarcely further to the left than those of President Hoover in Washington, D.C. But during Roosevelt's second term, as the Depression became more catastrophic in its effects, he acted to mobilize the machinery of the state government to aid the economy. In the fall of 1931 he obtained legislation establishing the Temporary Emergency Relief Administration, the first of the state relief agencies. Throughout his four years, he was successful in most of his bouts with the Republican legislature, sharpening skills that would prove vital in the future. And, increasingly, beginning with some slight speculation in November 1928, he was bein

Answer 2

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The answer to the last question is, TO GET LAID

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

Because he had a hole in his sock?