Franklin Delano Roosevelt died on 12 April 1945 in Little White House, aged 63. An American Democratic politician, Roosevelt served as governor of New York and was elected the 32nd president in 1932, during the Great Depression. His New Deal programmes expanded the role of the federal government through relief, public works, banking reform and Social Security. He was elected four times, the only president to serve more than two terms, and led the country through most of the Second World War, working with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin and signing the Lend-Lease Act. Paralysed by polio at the age of thirty-nine, he used a wheelchair in private. He died in April 1945, shortly before the end of the war in Europe.
Before and after
- from 23 March 1945 to 24 March 1945Operation Plunder
- 28 March 1945Birth of Rodrigo Duterte
- from 2 April 1945 to 13 April 1945Vienna offensive
- 7 April 1945Operation Ten-Go
- 12 April 1945Death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- from 16 April 1945 to 2 May 1945Battle of Berlin
- 18 April 1945Ruhr Pocket
- 28 April 1945Death of Benito Mussolini
- from 30 April 1945 to 2 May 1945Race for Trieste
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