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The Roosevelts
Education Clip: New Deal II
By 1935, the economic panic was over, but the nation was still in a depression. People become impatient with the slow progress and accuse Roosevelt had overextended the power of the federal government and was acting like a dictator.
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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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FDR battles with polio and responds to the Great Depression.

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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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Examine the early lives of Theodore Roosevelt and his younger cousin, Franklin.

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1:51:33
Examine Eleanor’s role as civil rights and U.N champion after FDR’s death.

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1:55:05
Survey FDR’s leadership during WWII, while Eleanor tends to wounded servicemen.

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1:56:40
Examine FDR’s New Deal and Eleanor’s growing political activism.

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1:56:40
FDR battles with polio and responds to the Great Depression.

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1:56:30
Trace the effects of WWI on the lives of the Roosevelts.