Question

rite a 250-word response to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” speech. In your response, focus on the immediate and historical impact of the speech and cite evidence from the speech and from your research to support your analysis. You will need to do additional research to complete this task. Also, include both an analysis of the text of the speech, as well as some aspects of analysis that you gleaned by listening to the audio clip of the speech. Your response should be comprehensive and well-researched.

Answer 1

On this day in 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses Congress in an effort to move the nation away from a foreign policy of neutrality. The president had watched with increasing anxiety as European nations struggled and fell to Hitler’s fascist regime and was intent on rallying public support for the United States to take a stronger interventionist role. In his address to the 77th Congress, Roosevelt stated that the need of the moment is that our actions and our policy should be devoted primarily–almost exclusively–to meeting the foreign peril. For all our domestic problems are now a part of the great emergency.Roosevelt insisted that people in all nations of the world shared Americans’ entitlement to four freedoms: the freedom of speech and expression, the freedom to worship God in his own way, freedom from want and freedom from fear. After Roosevelt’s death and the end of World War II, his widow Eleanor often referred to the four freedoms when advocating for passage of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Mrs. Roosevelt participated in the drafting of that declaration, which was adopted by the United Nations in 1948.

Answer 2

For this question, it is impossible for us to provide the 250 word response, as this is a task that you have to perform yourself. However, we are still able to provide an overview of some of the characteristics of the speech that you should discuss in your text.

The "Four Freedoms" speech was a speech delivered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 6, 1941. The speech receives this name because in it, the president talks about some of the ideals that he believes should give American life, as well as its presence in the international arena. These freedoms were freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. The message is considered to have been important to the development of the concept of human rights. It was also instrumental in the establishment of the League of Nations, a predecessor of the United Nations.