After reading Franklin De Roosevelt’s “The Four Freedoms” we are not really that far away from our past. The “freedom from fear” is what we are searching for still today. Wanting to live life without the threat of war, and terrorists. Some things have changed and changed for the worse, like the current threat of terrorism. The war in the Middle East not only resembles some of the chaos from 1941 when World War II was beginning, but it overshadows the past. Finally we can work through how our government could possibly prevent us from living in fear, and we can ask ourselves what it would take to demolish this fear.
The fourth freedom, the “freedom from fear”, “Means a worldwide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor.” (154) what this …show more content…
Before World War II schools, were teaching children how to respond to air raid sirens. They went over drill over drill, which was an example of their fear from. People built bomb shelters, stock piled canned goods so they could have something to live off of, and they had gas masks even for babies. Today we don’t do things like that because there really isn’t anything that could save us, from the new threat of nuclear war. Another big difference is what I was talking about earlier the attack on our home ground is more apparent. The smaller attacks are more wide spread throughout the country. Even though “On December 7th 1941 the US was attacked by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii more than 2400 American servicemen were killed that day and America entered the WAR . And with neutrality ended some 950 tanks were sent to Britain together with food, trucks, guns and ammunition. “The spillover of the war in 1941 hit home ground, and I believe that the apparent danger was not as great as it is
The fourth freedom, the “freedom from fear”, “Means a worldwide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor.” (154) what this …show more content…
Before World War II schools, were teaching children how to respond to air raid sirens. They went over drill over drill, which was an example of their fear from. People built bomb shelters, stock piled canned goods so they could have something to live off of, and they had gas masks even for babies. Today we don’t do things like that because there really isn’t anything that could save us, from the new threat of nuclear war. Another big difference is what I was talking about earlier the attack on our home ground is more apparent. The smaller attacks are more wide spread throughout the country. Even though “On December 7th 1941 the US was attacked by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii more than 2400 American servicemen were killed that day and America entered the WAR . And with neutrality ended some 950 tanks were sent to Britain together with food, trucks, guns and ammunition. “The spillover of the war in 1941 hit home ground, and I believe that the apparent danger was not as great as it is