ely identified with the policies of former U.S. presidents Warren Harding and of Calvin Coolidge, since he had served as secretary of commerce in both administrations. Roosevelts task was essentially a simple one: to convince the American people that because the Republicans had claimed full credit for the prosperity of the 1920s, they should receive full blame for the depression. Roosevelt was spectacularly successful at this.Roosevelts first inaugural address, with its pledge to make war upon the depression and its ringing phrase, we have nothing to fear but fear itself, brought a new style to the U.S. presidency. Not long after being in office Roosevelt started a new program, that would hopefully get the U.S. out of the depression called the New Deal. After many great accomplishments in office Roosevelt was re-elected in 1936 to his second term, after this term most expected him not to run again in 1940, out of tradition that no president before him served no more than two terms, but he ran anyway and won by a fair margin. In 1938 Hitler of Germany started WWII by invading Poland, and Roosevelt knew it wouldnt be long until the U.S. was brought into the war, so he started supplying the Allies with weapons and ships on a lend-lease program. Then on December the 7th 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and brought the U.S. into the war.Roosevelt did not live to see the end of World War II. During the war years he had not appeared often in public, but during his campaign for a fourth term in 1944 many who saw him said that he looked pale, thin, and old. The election, which resulted in his victory over New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, was a strain on the president, as was the long trip to Yalta. In the early spring of 1945 he went to Warm Springs, Georgia, in an effort to recapture his lost energy. There he died of a massive cerebral hemorrhage on April 12, 1945. Harry Truman took the oath of office to become president the same day....
