Interpretation of Franklin.D. Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms Speech

Running head: INTERPRETATION OF FRANKLIN.D. ROOSEVELT’S FOUR FREEDOMS SPEECH
Interpretation of Franklin.D. Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms Speech
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1INTERPRETATION OF FRANKLIN.D.ROOOSEVELT’S FOUR FREEDOMS SPEECH
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was an American politician and statesman who also served
as the 32nd President of the United States of America. He is considered to be one of the most
important figures of American History as well as one of the most influential figures of history
in 20th century. The Four Freedoms speech of President Roosevelt were certain goals
formulated by him eleven months before the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbour.
The purpose of this essay is to make an interpretation of the four-freedoms
statement made by President Franklin. D. Roosevelt made in 1941.
The history of the four-freedoms of speech of President Roosevelt can be traced back
to the year 1941 when a large number of the American society felt that their country should
not have taken any part in World War I. As such, the Americans wanted their country to stop
interfering in the European political matters. With the passing of the Neutrality Act of 1935,
the U.S. rules and regulation rejected the sales of weapons to countries that were at war with
each other and also placed other kinds of restrictions.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the then President of the United States of America,
delivered the speech eleven months before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour and the
joining of the United States into the second World War.
As stated by McCulloch (84), in this statement, Roosevelt spoke about the basic
fundamental freedoms of four types that the people all over the world should enjoy for