6 jan 1941 ano - Fireside Chats and the Four Freedoms

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President Roosevelt saw Germany’s conquest of most of Europe as a direct threat to the U.S.’s security and a threat to democratic governments. After he was reelected, FDR believed that ending the U.S.’s neutrality and helping Britain would benefit the U.S. in the long run. He ended up giving ones of his fireside chats in December of 1940 in which he explained that “we must be the great arsenal of democracy”. In this Fireside Chat: “arsenal of Democracy”, we can see how FDR wanted the listeners to think of those fighting for democracy and how we should help them with their cause because it is also our cause. He gave another speech on January 6, 1941 in Congress in which he proposed the lending of money to Britain for the purchasing of war goods. He justified this proposal with the Four Freedoms: freedom of speech, of religion, from want, and from fear. In the image, Freedom from want, we can see how want is something to fear because it can drive us to only think selfishly. This is one of the reasons why FDR justified his proposal with the four freedoms because the falling nations deserve to be saved from their wants. Later in 1941, Roosevelt proposed an ending to the cash-and-carry requirement in the Neutrality Act and letting Britain buy all of the U.S. arms that it needed on credit. This later became the Lend-lease Act and was passed in March of 1941. Many isolationists in the America First Committee campaigned against the bill, but the majority of people wanted to help the British. Now that the U.S. would be helping Britain, President Roosevelt knew that the states would inevitably join the war. He arranged a meeting in August with the English Prime Minister Winston Churchill. These two leaders ended up creating a charter, the Atlantic Charter, in which promised the principles for a sound peace after war that would include self-determination for all people, no territorial expansion, and free trade. In summary, the different reasons behind FDR’s push for supporting Britain in the world war had both economic reason and political. FDR was hoping to protect the democratic ideals while still getting something for themselves.

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