Who was president during the Great Depression and World War II?

On the 2008 test

The 2008 test asks this as Question 80: “Who was President during the Great Depression and World War II?”

The 2008 question lists the same answer.

Background

Franklin Roosevelt was President during the Great Depression and World War II. Roosevelt is the only President elected four times, leading through two of the century's greatest crises.

From this site's page for 2008 Question 80.

The 65/20 special consideration

Question 105 is not one of the 20 asterisked questions, so an applicant who qualifies for the 65/20 special consideration would not be asked it. Everyone else studies all 128.

Answers that get mixed up with this one

These are the wrong options the 2025 practice test puts beside this question. Each one is the correct answer to a different 2025 question.

• “Father of the Constitution”answers Question 88: James Madison is famous for many things. Name one.
• Freed the slavesanswers Question 95: What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
• (Because there were) 13 original coloniesanswers Question 121: Why does the flag have 13 stripes?

More Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information questions

• Question 102: When did all women get the right to vote?1920 · After World War I · (With the) 19th Amendment
• Question 103: What was the Great Depression?Longest economic recession in modern history
• Question 104: When did the Great Depression start?The Great Crash (1929) · Stock market crash of 1929
• Question 106: Why did the United States enter World War II?(Bombing of) Pearl Harbor · Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor · To support the Allied Powers (England, France, and Russia) · To oppose the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan)
• Question 107: Dwight Eisenhower is famous for many things. Name one.General during World War II · President at the end of (during) the Korean War · 34th president of the United States · Signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 (Created the Interstate System)