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Education Clip Rough Riders During WWI
Theodore Roosevelt visits Wilson and volunteers to put together the Rough Riders to lead them into battle again. Though he admired TR, Wilson had to turn him down. TR was crestfallen and disillusioned and comes to the realization that the world he knew has come to an end.
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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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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.