Para 7: WW2

Question 1

What year did Roosevelt deliver his famous ‘four freedoms’ speech?

Answer 1

January 1941 Roosevelt delivers his ‘Four Freedoms’ speech which details the freedoms that people everywhere ought to enjoy

Question 2

When does America join the war?

Answer 2

December 1941, following attack on Pearl Harbour

Question 3

What comes along with America joining the war?

Answer 3

The restriction of freedoms on the home front as total war is employed

Question 4

What is used as propaganda in Germany and Japan and what does it do?

Answer 4

The denial of freedoms to African Americans within America, and this opens up a conversation about the reality of freedoms at home, feeding activism following the war

Question 5

Why is WW2 significant for American freedoms?

Answer 5

Is a war which brings to light the gaps between American rhetoric and reality, with the war increasingly being framed by Roosevelt as a fight for freedoms