Modern Era · North America · Politics

1932

Roosevelt wins presidency

November 8, 1932

With a quarter of Americans out of work and banks closing every day, voters gave Franklin Delano Roosevelt the biggest electoral margin in a generation. Polio had put him in a wheelchair he hid from cameras. In a hundred days he would remake the relationship between the American government and its citizens for a century.

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Before and after in North America

Before: 1931: Al Capone convicted of tax evasion
After: March 4, 1933: FDR's first inaugural

Before and after in Politics

Before: 1931: Al Capone convicted of tax evasion
After: January 30, 1933: Hitler becomes Chancellor

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