Essay On Analyzing FDR's Four Freedoms Speech

The four freedoms is a state of the union speech by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Franklin was born in Hyde Park, New York. He was the thirty-second president of United States. Served from 1933 to 1945. Roosevelt led the nation through Great Depression and World War II. He died on April 1945 while still on the office.
When Franklin D. Roosevelt expressed the Four Freedoms in 1941, he was predicting a postwar in the United States that would promote respect and human dignity to ensure security. By promoting the four freedoms which are; freedom of expression, freedom from fear, freedom of religion and freedom from want, the world would be more secure. He addressed what he saw as the condition leading to his new policy and preventing tragic destructions of war in future.
In January 1941, the aggressive and successful war machine posed a threat to freedom everywhere. A geopolitical crisis that could not be ignored emerged with the fall of France in 1940. At that time Fascist Italy, the Axis powers of Germany and Imperial Japan had dominated a significant parts of Asia and Europe. By the end of 1940, the entry of America into that war seemed unavoidable. Facing isolation and a war that was spreading fast, threatening to engulf United States, there were no easy choices. Speaking for European, the only major power resisting the Axis, Winston Churchill the British prime minister at that time convinced Franklin D. Roosevelt of the need to back England. The war of Britain was taking a toll and without enough supplies and cash they would soon give into Axis juggernaut. American at that time were against any policy that would lead their country into war.
In order to avoid calamity, Franklin D. Roosevelt leased material to the British that would help them in the war. To avoid the impression that he was taking part in the war through the back door, he mentored the program in a metaphor. The four freedoms appear to contain civil and political rights. In the speech, Franklin D. Roosevelt is optimistic of a favorable result of the war. Roosevelt insisted on essential of peace in all nations, Freedom from fear is linked to Freedom of Want, in the formulation, the freedoms are to achieve one objective, security. Fear is brought by acts of aggression and threats to peace, and following that logic, aggression has been made clear by the Nuremberg process and the new charter.
The four freedoms remain relevant to United States of America policies, they present a descriptive, accurate and evocative paradigm, and they can always campaign to advocate enduring values. Labeling a war brings about the use of the armed forces, cost, and risks. Instead of pursuing war, conducting a campaign to protect and promote the values of the four freedoms. Successful and wise leaders avoid clashes of civilization as well as unnecessary wars. The four freedoms sustain realism of security, they perceive the needs and impulses of people and channel them to cooperation and mutual respect.The United States people take satisfaction and strength from what have been done in the past, those things have made them tough and have increased their faith and devotion in protecting their institutions. The beauty of the four freedoms is making policies that are informed, implemented strategies, rational decision-making, and objective intelligence.

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