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to go through, and I'll just read the excerpt for you. Between 1929 and 1945,

two great travails were visited upon the American people, the Great Depression

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Americans endured and eventually prevailed in the face of those unprecedented

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a simple reaction to the alleged excesses of the 1920s.

Hello, and thank you for listening to a history of World War II, episode 36, the

end of the Third Republic. Although the U ambassador William Bullitt had only

recently caught up with the wandering French government, who now had a home in

Vichy, he would find himself saying his goodbyes and leaving the country on

July 3rd. Roosevelt was not happy with the direction the new government was

heading, and so would remove his ambassador and personal friend. There was

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