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History Through the Viewfinder
A tribute to the leadership of President Franklin D. Roosevelt at The National WWII Museum.
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Medical Innovations: Polio
Before he took office and faced the challenges of the Great Depression and World War II, FDR faced the challenge of Polio. This disease was sometimes deadly and always feared in the US during the first half of the twentieth century. Part of FDR's legacy is the Polio vaccine, released in 1955.
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History Through the Viewfinder
A memorial depicts FDR’s special relationship with ordinary Americans in a world verging on war.
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History Through the Viewfinder
A single teardrop symbolizes FDR’s tumultuous first term.
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Past Events
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A Rendezvous with Destiny: FDR and Churchill
05/06/2020 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMFranklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill had the most complex and historically significant friendship of the 20th century.
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Yalta at 75: From World War to Cold War Symposium (SOLD OUT)
02/08/2020 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PMJoin leading scholars for a daylong discussion about the Yalta Conference—from the run-up to the conference, the proceedings themselves, to the legacies of Yalta for the postwar world, for the Cold War, and for our own day.
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The Gen. Raymond E. Mason Jr. Distinguished Lecture Series on World War II: David Reynolds
01/15/2020 | 5:00 PM - 8:00 PMJoin us for a penetrating account of the dynamics of World War II’s Grand Alliance through the messages exchanged by the “Big Three.”
