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| Presidential Elections Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic)
Wendel L. Willkie (Republican)
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| Congress enacts first peacetime draft | Septmbr 16 |  |
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| Democratic convention at Chicago | July 15 | |
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| John Lewis urges labor to vote for Willkie | October 25 | |
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|  | | Popular Vote 54.8
44.8
| Electoral Vote 499
82
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| | March 8 | Senate approves president’s "Lend-Lease" plan |
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| | 1940 | stringent campaign finance act passed |
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| | August 17 | Wilkie accepts Republican nomination |
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| Senate creates Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program | March | |
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| Senator Chandler proposes hiring 'research experts' | 1941 | |
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| | | | August | opposition arises in renewal of the draft |
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| | December 8 | Sen. Arthur Vandeer reverses isolationist position, nation goes to war |
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| Republicans gain seats in Congress as there is a swing to the right | 1942 | |
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| | | | September | Roosevelt threats Congress with action |
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| C.I.O. forms first Political Action Committee | July | |
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| | | | 1943 | conservative coalition repeals many New Deal agencies |
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| Presidential Elections Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic)
Thomas E. Dewey (Republican)
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| Communist Party dissolves, forms Communist Political Association | May | |
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| Henry Wallace replaced by Truman as vice presidential nominee | 1944 | |
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| America First party holds convention in Detriot, nominates Smith | August 30 | |
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| | | Popular Vote 53.5
46.0
| Electoral Vote 432
99
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| | Feb 23 | Roosevelt vetoes Barkley’s tax bill |
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| | July 19 | Democratic convention in Chicago |
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| | August 4 | soldier voting act amended |
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| President Roosevelt dies, replaced by Truman | April 12 | |
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| | | | 1945 | Senate agrees to the United Nations Charter |
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| | early 1945 | Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress established |
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| Henry Wallace resigns | 1946 | |
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| | | | 1946 | number of Republicans increase in Senate to majority, pass Taft-Hartley Act |
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| | May | Truman proposes law to draft strikers, labor relations hurt |
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| Senate approves "Truman Doctrine" | 1947 | |
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| | | | 1947 | "Vandenburg Resolution" adopted |
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| Presidential Elections Harry S. Truman (Democratic)
Thomas E. Dewey (Republican)
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| General MacArthur announces possible candidacy | March | |
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| Dixiecrats hold convention, nominate Strom Thurmond | July 17 | |
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| Communist Party endorses Wallace | August | |
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| Democrats return to majority status in house | 1948 | |
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| | | Popular Vote 54.8
44.8
| Electoral Vote 499
82
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| | January | Eisenhower refuses to run |
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| | July 12 | Democratic convention held in Philadelphia |
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| | July 22 | Progressive Party convention in Philadelphia nominates Wallace |
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| | 1948 | Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey elected to Senate |
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