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| 1933 |
| | | The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is the largest project launched in the first hundred days of Roosevelt's New Deal | |
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| 1936 |
| | | F.D. Roosevelt is elected for a second US presidential term with an increased share of the vote | |
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| 1937 |
| | | Congress passes a Neutrality Act, to prevent US aid being given to belligerent nations | |
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| 1937 |
| | | Congress rejects President Roosevelt's proposed reform of the US Supreme Court, amid furious accusations that he is trying to pack the Court with his nominees | |
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| 1940 October |
| | | President Roosevelt, campaigning for a third term, asssures Americans that he will not send their sons to fight in Europe's war | |
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| 1940 October |
| | | The US government provides 50 destroyers to boost the British escort of convoys in the Atlantic | |
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| 1940 November 5 |
| | | F.D. Roosevelt wins an unprecedented third US presidential term, albeit it with a considerably reduced share of the vote | |
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| 1941 |
| | | The US Congress declares war on Japan and President Roosevelt endorses the order | |
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| 1941 January 6 |
| | | President Roosevelt defines to Congress his concept of Four Freedoms – of speech, of worship, from want, from fear | |
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| 1941 March 11 |
| | | Congress passes the Lend-lease Act, enabling President Roosevelt to provide much needed help to US allies | |
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