Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945) was an American politician who served as the president of the United States. He is most notable for being a wartime president during the Second World War. Roosevelt is probably one of the most confusing presidents in terms of evaluating them. Roosevelt was racist and implement racist policies (Japanese camps), however, he led the free world to defeat the Nazis and bring victory. This makes him a questionable president.

Presidency
Roosevelt was inaugurated president in 1933. His main focus was to end the Great Depression. Roosevelt came up with the New Deal.

World War II
Initially, Roosevelt wanted to vibe as a two-term president (like all previous presidents), however, he chose to run for a third term in the wake of the Second World War. Roosevelt used the war as an opportunity to make the economy better. Before fully bringing the United States to intervene in the war in 1941, Roosevelt supplied ships to the United Kingdom in exchange for money. However, after the Pearl Harbor attacks, Roosevelt chose to fully involve the United States into the war.

Under Roosevelt, the Normandy invasions occurred, which ended successfully. Roosevelt met with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin face-to-face to figure ways to defeat the Axis powers. However, before he could witness the soon-to-come victory in Europe, he died on April 12, 1945 due to a hemorrhage. Subsequently, his vice president, Harry S. Truman, took the oath of office.

Racism
After the Olympics in Berlin, Roosevelt refused to invite Jesse Owens because he was black. Owens in response stated that "Adolf Hitler had treated him better than Roosevelt."

Roosevelt also put approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans into camps.

Roosevelt said this in 1925: "Californians have properly objected on the sound basic ground that Japanese immigrants are not capable of assimilation into the American population."