Compare And Contrast Four Freedoms And Kennedy's Inaugural Address

There are a lot of things people say about freedom, Kennedy once said “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” That related to how Kennedy thinks that America should work with the enemy to keep freedom and peace. Whereas Roosevelt wants to arm other countries to keep freedom and peace, but in both Roosevelt's “four freedoms” speech and Kennedy’s inaugural address they want America to be safe. The historical context and purpose of the first speech is about how America needs to keep safe from germany. This is because it was right before ww11 started so they didn’t want to get involved with them. But the problem was that the Nazi’s were invading European countries, so Roosevelt said that he was going to arm our allies so that they could defend themselves from the German army. He talks about how the Americans should be concerned because …show more content…
He talks about how he will support people and try to be peaceful with them. He says he knows it's not an easy task to keep peace at all times, and that it may take a very long time to achieve, but that he isn’t scared to take on the task. The meaning of freedom in the first speech is that we need to show support to our allies by aiding them in battle or else the freedom we have will be in jeopardy. He talks about this in paragraph 32-35 by talking about his nation policy. He talks about how important our support is to our friends and how we can't be free by taking other people's freedom. Lastly the meaning of freedom in the second speech is that we need to come to an agreement and work together with our aggressors because if not we could potentially wipe out the whole human race, as talked about in paragraph 12. He also talks about how he thinks the best thing for everyone is if both sides unite and help people living under hard rule to be set