The Four Freedoms<span> were goals articulated by United States President Franklin D.</span>Roosevelt<span> on January 6, 1941. In an address known as the </span>Four Freedoms speech<span>(technically the 1941 State of the Union address), he proposed </span>four<span> fundamental </span>freedoms<span> that people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy
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The speech was intended to rally the American people against the Axis threat and to shift favor in support of assisting British and Allied troops.
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The European war presented the Japanese with tempting opportunities. After the Nazi attack on Russia in 1941, the Japanese were torn between German urgings to join the war against the Soviets and their natural inclination to seek richer prizes from the European colonial territories to the south. In 1940 Japan occupied northern Indochina in an attempt to block access to supplies for the Chinese Nationalists, and in July 1941 it announced a joint protectorate with Vichy France over the whole colony. This opened the way for further moves into Southeast Asia.
