If you were born in the '40s, your decade began with the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to an unprecedented third term. The country was isolationist and american workers got the forty... Read allIf you were born in the '40s, your decade began with the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to an unprecedented third term. The country was isolationist and american workers got the forty hour work week.If you were born in the '40s, your decade began with the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to an unprecedented third term. The country was isolationist and american workers got the forty hour work week.