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The Roosevelts
Education Clip: FDR's Third Term Begins
Roosevelt wins an unprecedented third term. His 1941 State of the Union address speaks to internationalism and the Four Freedoms. His call for Americans to defend these freedoms, transitions the United States from neutrality to a world leader. For the best of motives, he ever so gently nudges the country into an international conflict where it didn’t want to go.
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Examine Eleanor’s role as civil rights and U.N champion after FDR’s death.
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Survey FDR’s leadership during WWII, while Eleanor tends to wounded servicemen.
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Examine FDR’s New Deal and Eleanor’s growing political activism.
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Trace the effects of WWI on the lives of the Roosevelts.
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Theodore’s presidency and FDR and Eleanor’s courtship and marriage.
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