Roosevelt helmed the government during the prologue to America’s involvement, the declarations of war in 1941, and through the prosecution of the war to final victory in 1945, although he would not ...

World War II was just weeks from finally being won when, on April 12, 1945, the United States was shocked and saddened by an ...

A diary belonging to a teenage girl living in New York City in 1945 has offered a fascinating ... six we learned the tragic news of President Roosevelt's death," adding, "No one knows what the ...

An official 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt fourth-term inaugural medal in gold from the estate of former U.S. Mint director ...

People gather on the lawn to mark the day Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died here on April 12, 1945, just months into his fourth term as president, and weeks before the end of ...

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In February 1945, President Roosevelt makes the arduous journey of 14,000 miles to Yalta to meet again with Churchill and Stalin. The Americans and British are deeply concerned with Stalin's ...

WARM SPRINGS, Ga., April 12, 1945 (UP) - Death today removed Franklin Delano Roosevelt from a war-torn world and left peace-expectant millions shocked and stunned. Death gave the 63-year-old ...

Facing one of the greatest challenges in American history—world war—Roosevelt helmed the government during the era just before World War II through the prosecution of the war to final victory in 1945.