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8 feb 2022 · This speech, delivered by President Franklin Roosevelt on January 6, 1941, became known as his "Four Freedoms Speech" due to a short closing portion in which he described his vision for extending American ideals throughout the world.
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The Four Freedoms Speech was given on January 6, 1941. Roosevelt's hope was to provide a rationale for why the United States should abandon the isolationist policies that emerged from World War I.
As America entered the war these "four freedoms" - the freedom of speech, the freedom of worship, the freedom from want, and the freedom from fear - symbolized America's war aims and gave hope in the following years to a war-wearied people because they knew they were fighting for freedom.
Four Freedoms, formulation of worldwide social and political objectives by U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt in the State of the Union message he delivered to Congress on January 6, 1941. The first part of Roosevelt’s speech dealt with the preparations under way to put the United States on a war footing as World War II raged in Europe.
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On January 6, 1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his eighth State of the Union address, now known as the Four Freedoms speech. 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.
Eleven months before the Japanese Empire launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) gave a speech that came to symbolize the broader meaning behind America’s effort to defeat fascism abroad.
16 nov 2009 · 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...
