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每天一篇“今日美史”，提炼和总结历史在今天发生的重要事件：谁，在哪里，什么时候，做了什么，这件事为什么重要，以及在写关于什么主题的论文的时候可以作为潜在的论据引用。 每天30秒，轻松积累史实 为AP美国历史拿5分打下坚实基础 Who：President Franklin D. RooseveltWhat：President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke about the Four Freedoms in the 1941 State of the Union address.
罗斯福发表的四大自由原则 In the 1930s many Americans felt that the involvement in World War I had been a mistake, and were adamantly against continued intervention in European affairs. As a result, the U.S. established Neutrality Acts, which banned the sale of armaments to countries that were at war and placed restrictions on travel with belligerent vessels, and it remained in effect when World War II began in September 1939.
But FDR had watched with increasing anxiety as European nations fell to Hitler’s fascist regime one by one. Therefore, in his speech to the Congress, he made a break with the tradition of non-interventionism. He proposed to the Congress four fundamental freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy, which include: Freedom of speech Freedom of worship Freedom from want Freedom from fear
The declaration of the Four Freedoms as a justification for war would resonate through the remainder of the war, and for decades longer as a frame of remembrance.The Freedoms became the staple of America's war aims, and the center of all attempts to rally public support for the war. They became values central to American life and examples of American exceptionalism.
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