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The Roosevelts
Education Clip Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. FDR is stunned, but recovers. He addresses Congress to declare war on Japan, but waits for Germany to declare war, thus insuring complete support by Americans.
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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.