In 1932, he was re-elected governor of New York, and was also nominated as the Democratic nominee for the President. They had a pretty good idea that they would win, because the Great Depression had begun under the Republicans, and many Americans were blaming it on them, and turning towards the other party, which fortunately had Roosevelt on their side. After he was elected, someone tried to assassinate him, but wasn't successful.

Here in an ordered, bulleted list, are his actions as President of the United States:

• Declared a bank holiday, in which banks were inspected, and therefore the public's confidence was restored in the banks, and began keeping their money there again.

• Formed several recovery programs, such as the CCC (Civilian conservation Corps), the CWA (Civil Works Administration), and FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation).

• Ended the CWA after in grew ineffective, and began the WPA, a work program that formed large construction products for people to work at and make money for their family.

• Passed the Wagner Act

• Enacted Social Security

• Prepared himself for the next election

In his first term alone, he had almost completely solved most of the problems from the Depression, such as homeless, poverty stricken, jobless family's.

In his second term he:

• Tried to warn the Americam people about the oncoming war

• Tried to neutralize the anger growing in Europe by sending the two dictators letters of warning, saying that if anything else happened, they would have to pay.

• He had the King and Queen of England over to America, in which time he got to talk with King George VI of the rising war, and a possible alliance.

• Built up American defenses after Germany invaded Poland (a warning sign that Germany was, and would be very aggressive).

• Gave permission for the Manhattan Project to begin, a top secret nuclear research project.

When the time rolled around for his third term campaign to begin, there was much dispute over whether he should run or not, since no other president had done it before. He decided to run because of what George Washington had said in the 1700's: A person should only run for a third term if the country was in a state of emergency. It definately was in 1940! No need to say that he won, since now he had 1/2, or maybe more, of all Americans on his side.

While in his third term he:

• Enacted the Lend-Lease Act, which allowed them to give Britain weapons without being their allies.

• Formed an Atlantic charter, where there had only used to be one in the Pacific.
• Reacted calmly and dutifully to the tragedy of the attack on Pearl Harbor
• Set wartime goals of production for one year: 60,000 planes, 45,000 tanks, 20,000 antiaircraft guns, and six million tons of shipping. (This completed the recovery from the Depression)
• Organized the military into three main groups; ground force, air force, and supply.
• He ran a radio show that helped to keep the morale of the Americans high. If there were no victories to tell of, he would describe acts of heroism by the men and women on the battlefield, and he also told funny little jokes about himself and other political issues.
• He was in international conferences, where countries planned strategies and alliances. (The Tehran Conference and the Casablanca Conferance)
• Helped to plan the famous attack known as "D-Day", and carry it out.

Then again in 1944, he was nominated to run for President by the Democratic Party. Since he didn't want to cause any more turmoil besides the war, he took the election easy, and made light, funny speeches. No need to say he won, again, and quite easily.

In his fourth term, the only really important thing that he did was attend the Yalta Conference, which officially ended the war in Europe.

After returning home, was feeling weak, and not quite well, so he took his final visit to Warm Springs, where he had gone originally for therapy while recovering from Polio. After about 2 weeks there, he began feeling much better, and returned to work in Washington.

In early April, the day before the next Yalta conference in San Francisco, he was reading his mail, with his secretary Lucy Mercer, when he complained of a sudden headache. A few minutes afterwards, he slumped over in his chair. He remained unconscious until his death on April 12, 1945.

During his funeral, he was pulled by regal looking horses, and followed by a crowd of mourning people. All of America was mourning, but life would go on, it had to, because they were still at war with Japan...