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Battle of the Bulge

Season 1 | 2m 19s

FDR remained calm when hearing of the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944.

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Extras
Watch the introduction to The Roosevelts: An Intimate History.
Examine Eleanor’s role as civil rights and U.N champion after FDR’s death.
Survey FDR’s leadership during WWII, while Eleanor tends to wounded servicemen.
Examine FDR’s New Deal and Eleanor’s growing political activism.
FDR battles with polio and responds to the Great Depression.
Trace the effects of WWI on the lives of the Roosevelts.
Theodore’s presidency and FDR and Eleanor’s courtship and marriage.
Timeline Clip - Theodore Roosevelt has dinner with Booker T. Washington.
Timeline Clip - Theodore Roosevelt’s Views On Civilization
Examine the early lives of Theodore Roosevelt and his younger cousin, Franklin.
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Examine Eleanor’s role as civil rights and U.N champion after FDR’s death.
Survey FDR’s leadership during WWII, while Eleanor tends to wounded servicemen.
Examine FDR’s New Deal and Eleanor’s growing political activism.
FDR battles with polio and responds to the Great Depression.
Trace the effects of WWI on the lives of the Roosevelts.
Theodore’s presidency and FDR and Eleanor’s courtship and marriage.
Examine the early lives of Theodore Roosevelt and his younger cousin, Franklin.