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Education Clip: FDR's Third Term Begins

5m 54s

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.

Aired: 09/12/14
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