General Information:
- Franklin D. Roosevelt was the thirty-second President of the nation with John Nance Garner IV as his Vice President for his first term, Henry Agard Wallace as his Vice President for his second term, and Harry S. Truman as his Vice President for his third term.
- He remains the only President ever to serve more than eight years.
- Served as the 44th Governor of New York and as Assistant Secretary of the Navy
- The New Deal economic program begins, followed by the Second New Deal.
- The passing of the following acts: Emergency Banking Act, Economy Act, Agricultural Adjustment Act, Federal Securities Act, Federal Emergency Relief Act, National Industrial Recovery Act, Banking Act, Indian Reorganization Act, Social Security Act, National Labor Relations Act, Public Utilities Holding Company Act, Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, Second Agricultural Adjustment Act, Fair Labor Standards Act, Executive Reorganization Act, National Housing Act, Reorganization Act of 1939, Securities and Exchange Act, and Homeowners' Loan Act.
- The establishment of a plethora of relief and recovery programs: Civilian Conservation Corps, Tennessee Valley Authority. Civil Works Administration, Works Progress Administration, National Youth Administration, Temporary National Economic Committee, National Union for Social Justice, and the American Liberty League.
- The beginning and continued increase of militancy within laborers and labor unions. This is shown through the beginnings of Sit-down strikes in many places of businesses, in order to prevent strike-breakers from being called in, as an effort to force employers to meet the demands of their workers.
- The establishment of the Share-Our-Wealth Society.
- The end of prohibition with the passing of the 21st Amendment.
- The end of the gold standard.
- The organization and recognition of many different workers' unions: Southern Tenant Farmers Union, Steel Workers Organizing Committee.