The presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt began on March 4, 1933.
1933 March 4 – First inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt March 5 - President Roosevelt calls for the 73rd United States Congress to participate in an extraordinary session the following Thursday, March 9. During the night hours he proclaims a national holiday during the midnight of March 9. March 6 - President Roosevelt announces his intent to have deposits in banks held in a cash form, followed by being sent to the federal reserve bank or turned into government bonds. March 6 - Secretary of the Treasury William H. Woodin issues a regulation allowing the reopening of banks the following day for submitting of new deposits. March 6 - President Roosevelt is announced as having left the Roosevelt & O'Connor law firm. March 6 - Former President Herbert Hoover signals support for President Roosevelt's emergency banking program and urges others to do the same. March 6 - Secretary of the Treasury Woodin announces regulations applicable during the national banking holiday.Woodin Gives Banking Rules (March 7, 1933) March 6 - Senate Democrats consent to voting as a collective in favor of recommendations President Roosevelt submitted whenever one of them is dictated to the caucus. The move is seen as assuring that any legislation President Roosevelt requests will pass through the Senate.Democrats Bind Selves to Solidly Back Roosevelt (March 7, 1933) March 7 - President Roosevelt holds a two-hour session with members of his cabinet deciding the banks would be reopened under conditions that would give depositors confidence along with a haste-filled return of hoarding currency. President Roosevelt accepts the resignation of his cousin Governor General of the Philippines Theodore Roosevelt Jr. March 8 - President Roosevelt announces a program's completion to reopen banks across the US. President Roosevelt holds his first news conference. December 1 - Agriculture Secretary Wallace announces a Ford dealer bid for 700 trucks on the part of the civilian conservation corps during the evening. December 2 - Interior Secretary Ickes says 8,000,000 are currently working under easy money allotments. Treasury Department reports showing the debt will be higher than at any point in history if the recovery drive fulfills expectations are made public. December 4 - The State Department receives formal notification on the part of Texas in regards to the repeal of the prohibition amendment. December 5 - Secretary Ickes announces the formation of the Federal Substance Homesteads, a corporation meant to inaugurate and administrate substance homestead projects. December 6 - President Roosevelt condemns lynching during an address to Protestant churchmen in Washington. December 7 - Secretary Ickes announces the US will not spend funds for sea domes across the trans-Atlantic airway until Europe issues a pledge that its troops will not use the creation to fly across to America. December 8 - Secretary Ickes announces the creation of 12,000 new jobs as a result of a loan of US$34 million to the Chicago Sanitary District. December 9 - Secretary Ickes issues an order warning public works employees against manufactures' agent James Bernard. December 11 - President Roosevelt holds his first news conference with joint senate and house on liquor taxes committee members and stresses the new federal taxes would have to be low enough to drown out bootleggers of liquor with inexpensive legal liquor. December 12 - Labor Secretary Perkins apologizes for remarks in the spring that were interpreted as implying she believed the south was in need of footwear during a speech in Atlanta, Georgia. December 14 - Secretary of Agriculture Wallace's annual report, in which he states the New Deal will require government regulations on business enterprise profits, is made public. Acting Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau declares he will not accept compromises on civil income tax claims. December 15 - Acting Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau discusses tax proposals while speaking to the house ways and means subcommittee on Capitol Hill. December 18 - It is learned that President Roosevelt has a program for formal devaluation of the dollar being developed for release in the near future alongside a stabilization of the modified gold currency. December 19 - President Roosevelt organizes the administration's national security council for acquisition of field work for various recovery agencies alongside an order for local representation for consumers in cities nationwide. December 20 - President Roosevelt invites all employees not regimented under a general NRA code to extend their aligning with his reemployment agreement for another four months.
1934 December 29 – Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty and the London Naval Treaty.
1935 September 15 – The Reichstag passes the Nuremberg Laws, introducing antisemitism in German legislation.
1936 March 25 – The Second London Naval Treaty is signed by the United Kingdom, United States, and France. Italy and Japan each declined to sign this treaty. November 3 – Elections throughout the United States are held. In the presidential election, Roosevelt defeats Republican nominee Alf Landon in a landslide. Congress likewise remains solidly Democratic, with the party expanding their majorities in the Senate and House of Representatives.
1937 January 20 – President Roosevelt and Vice President Garner are inaugurated a second time. This is the first presidential inauguration held after the ratification of the 20th Amendment, which moved the date of the ceremony from March4 to January20.
1938 July 6 – Évian Conference: The United States and the United Kingdom refuse to accept any more Jewish refugees.
1939 September 1 – World War II begins with the Invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany.
1940 November 5 – Reelected to a third term. December 29 – Arsenal of Democracy
1941 January 20 – Roosevelt is inaugurated a third time. Henry A. Wallace is also inaugurated vice president. December 7 – Japan launches a surprise attack on a US base on Pearl Harbor, killing over two thousand Americans and wounding a thousand more. Japan declares war on the United States and United Kingdom later that day (December8 in Japan). December 8 – Roosevelt addresses the Pearl Harbor attack before a joint session of Congress. Soon after, Congress almost unanimously declares war on Japan. December 11 - Germany and Italy, Japan's allies, declare war on the US, bringing the country into World War II.
1942 January January 1 - United States Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson reveals the American flag is still hanging over Manila and warns the US against viewing the ongoing conflict with Japan "thru rose colored glasses." The Departments of State and War disclose criticism of the American Navy at Pearl Harbor as a closed incident. United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom John Gilbert Winant reads a message from President Roosevelt reflecting on the prior year of 1941 during a pageant in London. January 2 - The War Department issues a statement saying American and Philippines troops continue combating Japanese forces in the aftermath of the Philippine capital being lost. President Roosevelt holds a press conference in Washington. President Roosevelt announces the government is studying the potential moving of vital arms plants away from danger zones on the coasts. The White House announces 26 countries have signed an agreement to combat Germany until the war's conclusion. January 3 - President Roosevelt spends the morning working on the budget and an annual message to congress and resumes conferences with allied leaders in the White House during the afternoon. January 5 - The Navy Department reveals the appointment of President Roosevelt's naval aide John R. Beardall for superintendent of the Annapolis Naval academy. January 6 - President Roosevelt delivers the 1942 State of the Union Address.State of the Union Address (January 6, 1942) January 7 - President Roosevelt announces the nomination of Laurence Steinhardt for United States Ambassador to Turkey. United States Attorney General Francis Biddle says a re-registration of enemy aliens for provisions of "tighter control" akin to the aftermath of the first World War is under consideration. January 9 - The Senate votes 48 to 37 to adopt an amendment for the price fixing bill. The amendment gives the United States Secretary of Agriculture veto power on raw product prices over farm prices. January 10 - The Senate votes 83 to 1 for the Roosevelt administration-supported price control bill. January 12 - The White House announces the establishment of the Joint United States-Mexican Defense commission by President Roosevelt and President of Mexico Manuel Ávila Camacho. January 18 - United States Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard speaks on preventing a predicted shortage of sugar, oil, and fats by the end of the year during an evening radio broadcast. January 19 - The Senate votes in favor of a bill authorizing the president control over telephonic systems and other wire communications during times of war exactly one month after the same bill was approved by the House on December 19 of the previous year. January 20 – Nazis at the Wannsee Conference in Berlin decide that the "Final Solution to the Jewish problem" is relocation, and later extermination. January 21 - Secretary of State Hull figures the State Department has spoken against a surprise attack in the Pacific Ocean to the US Army and Navy. January 22 - House and Senate conferees approve a Roosevelt administration price control bill compromise agreement. The bill sees farm prices rise by 11% and forbids the establishment of a maximum price on farm commodity without the United States Secretary of Agriculture approving. United States Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. says individuals thrown out of work are under consideration by the treasury to have their income tax payments eased through the conversion program to war production. January 23 - President Roosevelt says he is expecting to receive the Robert board's report on who bears responsibility for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor following an investigation in Hawaii during a press conference. January 24 - The White House announces President Roosevelt's intention to request Congress promote Generals Hugh Casey, Clinton Pierce, Arnold Funk, William Marquat, and Harold George to the brigadier general rank. The Department of Agriculture announces the operation of 18 mobile camps for the sheltering of 2,700 families of migratory farm laborers to meet farm labor standards. January 27 - President Roosevelt announces 6, 8, or 10 American expeditionary forces positioned at strategic fronts across the globe for the purpose of carrying American forces to a gradual victory in the war during a press conference in the afternoon. The House unanimously votes for a bill carrying 20 billions of dollars for the strengthening of the US Navy. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill announce, simultaneously in Washington and London, the members composing the three boards creating a joint high command for American and British forces to better align against the Axis forces. January 28 - President Roosevelt approves an act authorizing a defense fund of 100 million, the act making it illegal to wear the insignias of aids of civilian defense unless authorized. United States Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox says the job of the US Navy is fighting globally against "one indivisible total enemy." January 29 - The White House announces President Roosevelt's second fireside chat will likely take place on February 22, the birthday of former U.S. President George Washington.