Question

What argument is Franklin D. Roosevelt making in this excerpt from his "Four Freedoms" speech?

Answer 1

1. Americans should hold on to their isolationist tendencies as long as their own interests are not under threat. 2.Americans must not shirk their duty to go to war because Germany is a bigger threat than previous enemies. 3. Americans have always fought to uphold human rights and correct injustices against them. 4. Americans have always been peaceful but should be willing to go to war to defend their allies. 5.Americans should go to war to protect their allies against the Germans and assert their world domination.

Answer 2

Roosevelt argued that the United States needed to ally itself with Britain and the Allies to protect human rights around the world.

Step-by-step explanation:

In his Four Freedoms speech, President Franklin Roosevelt spoke out strongly for the need to defend these rights for all people:

• freedom of speech
• freedom of worship
• freedom from want
• freedom from fear

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt put forth the Four Freedoms in his State of the Union Address to Congress in January, 1941. He was urging continued aid to Britain in their war effort, even making the case for a larger role of American involvement in the war against aggressive powers (such as Germany and Japan) that stood in the way of freedom.