HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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Question
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He was born in Atlanta, GA
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It was safer from German attack
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The waters helped to ease his polio
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It was safer from Japanese attack
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Detailed explanation-1: -Roosevelt at the Little White House. In 1924, three years after Roosevelt contracted polio, he began visiting Warm Springs in Georgia. The springs were thought to be beneficial for polio victims. Roosevelt, who became the U.S. president in 1932, is pictured in front of the Little White House in Warm Springs.
Detailed explanation-2: -It is now the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation, a comprehensive rehabilitation facility operated by the state of Georgia.
Detailed explanation-3: -Warm Springs is home to Georgia’s largest state park, one of two national fish hatcheries in the state, and one of three presidential homes in Georgia – Franklin D. Roosevelt’s beloved “Little White House.”
Detailed explanation-4: -He was diagnosed with poliomyelitis and underwent years of therapy, including hydrotherapy at Warm Springs, Georgia. Roosevelt remained paralyzed from the waist down and relied on a wheelchair and leg braces for mobility, which he took efforts to conceal in public.
Detailed explanation-5: -In 1924, FDR visited a rundown spa in Warm Springs, Georgia where it was said that the buoyant mineral waters had therapeutic powers. After six weeks, he was convinced that he had made more progress in his rehabilitation than at any time in the previous three years. He built a home for himself at Warm Springs.