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| 1912 |
Eleanor attends her first Democratic Party Convention. |
| 1913 |
 FDR becomes Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Eleanor hires Lucy Mercer as her social secretary. |
| 1914 |
August 17: Eleanor gives birth to her fifth child, Franklin Jr.
World War I breaks out in Europe. |
| 1916 |
March 17: Eleanor gives birth to John, her sixth and last child. |
| 1917 |
The United States enters World War I. |
| 1918 |
 Eleanor learns of the affair between her husband and Lucy Mercer.
The Treaty of Versailles is ratified; The House of Representatives passes the amendment to grant women suffrage. |
| 1919 |
Eleanor volunteers at St. Elizabeth Hospital to visit World War I veterans; She volunteers at the International Congress of Working Women in Washington.
Congress passes the Eighteenth Amendment declaring Prohibition. |
| 1920 |
 Eleanor travels with Franklin on his campaign trail for the vice presidency; She becomes friends with Louis Howe; She joins the League of Women Voters.
Congress passes the Nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote. |
| 1921 |
Franklin becomes paralyzed from polio. |
| 1922 |
Eleanor becomes a member of the Women's Trade Union League; She joins the Women's Division of the Democratic State Committee and meets Marion Dickerman and Nancy Cook. |
| 1924 |
Congress passes Immigration Acts designed to stem the flow of Southern and Eastern European immigrants into the United States; The Kellogg-Briand Pact (Pact of Paris) which "outlaws war" passes Congress with overwhelming support. |
| 1925 |
Franklin builds Val-Kill Estate for Eleanor in Hyde Park; Eleanor founds the Val-Kill furniture factory along with Dickerman and Cook. |
| 1926 |
 Eleanor, Dickerman and Cook purchase Todhunter School, a girls seminary in New York, where Eleanor teaches history and government. |
| 1927 |
Eleanor meets Mary McLeod Bethune, president of Bethune-Cookman college |
| 1928 |
The Democratic National Committee appoints Eleanor director of Bureau of Women's Activities; FDR is elected as governor of New York.
President Herbert Hoover declares that the United States is nearer than ever to a "final triumph over poverty." |
| 1929 |
October 24: The New York Stock Exchange crashes. |
| 1932 |
Veterans march to the White House as the "Bonus Army"; Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president of the United States. |
| 1933 |
 March 6: Eleanor becomes the first wife of a president to hold all-female press conferences; She assists with the Arthurdale homestead project for coal miners in West Virginia.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt implements the New Deal.
The Dust-Bowl devastates the Midwest. |
| 1934 |
 Eleanor assists with the formation of the National Youth Administration; She coordinates meeting between FDR and NAACP leader Walter White to discuss anti-lynching legislation. |
| 1935 |
Eleanor coordinates a meeting with FDR, James Farley, head of the Democratic National Committee, and Molly Dewson, head of the Women's Division of the DNC, to discuss the role of women in political elections; She begins publishing the syndicated column, "My Day." |
| 1936 |
FDR runs for and wins re-election. |
