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Warm Up. What does the word “freedom” mean to you? List at least four (4) freedoms that you enjoy today. Explain why these freedoms are important to you. What is one freedom you find essential or most important ? Why is thi s freedom so essential?. Four Freedoms.

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Warm Up

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  1. Warm Up • What does the word “freedom” mean to you? • List at least four (4) freedoms that you enjoy today. • Explain why these freedoms are important to you. • What is one freedom you find essential or most important? Why is this freedom so essential?

  2. Four Freedoms

  3. The Saturday Evening Post • American Magazine with its first issue being published in 1821. • Published weekly from 1897 until 1969 • Currently it is a bimonthly publication • Publishes current event articles, human interest pieces, humor, illustrations, a letter column, and cartoon panel. • During World War II • Norman Rockwell popular illustrator for the Post • Treasury Department used Rockwell’s illustrations to promote the sale of war bonds.

  4. Picture Analysis • You and your group will look at four (4) pictures. • For each picture you are to do the following in your composition book: • List as many observations as you can • Create a title for the picture • Your group will share your title with the class. Your title must be based from your observations. • You will have five (5) minutes per picture. • Keep in mind our topic for the day.

  5. Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s:The Four Freedoms • January 6, 1941 – State of the Union Address • The FIRST is freedom of speech and expression -- everywhere in the world. • The SECOND is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way -- everywhere in the world. • The THIRD is freedom from want -- which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants -- everywhere in the world. • The FORTH is freedom from fear -- which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide 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-- anywhere in the world

  6. Four Freedoms • What do you think FDR was trying to get Congress to do? • Remember the dates – FDR gives this speech January 1941. • He is asking Congress to end American neutrality in World War II through the passage of the Lend-Lease Act. • March 11, 1941

  7. Atlantic Charter – August 1941 • Roosevelt met with British Prime Minister Churchill to discuss the War and the future. • They signed the Atlantic Charter: • Set up goals for the post-War world • UK and US would not seek territorial expansion • Collective security, disarmament, self-determination, economic cooperation, and freedom of the seas • FDR told Churchill that he could not ask Congress for declaration of war against Germany. • Signed a new document called “A Declaration of the United Nations.”

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