FDR

Of FDR's four freedoms, the goal of freedom from want and freedom from fear especially reflect American and European experiences during the 1930s and 1940s. Briefly explain what FDR meant by "freedom from want" and "freedom from fear" and explain how the desire for these freedoms was the result of American and European experiences during the 1930s and 1940s.
When Franklin Roosevelt took office as our President we as Americans were in need of change. We were a country just barely recovering from economic turmoil of the great depression, and were wracked with devastation of our involvement in World War Two. We needed the promise of hope and FDR with his social and economic changes met those needs.
With the promise of “freedom from want” Americans saw the chance for a more stable economy. We embraced this ideal, hoping to go back to the carefree attitude we had previously experienced in the 1920’s. While it had been FDR’s original plan to just open up international trade barriers that had been created pre-WWII, Americans had found their second chance at the American dream. The New Deal was promising schools for children, food to eat, jobs to keep and all of the other simple things that had become nonexistent during the great depression. It was offering Americans a fresh start, one desperately desired.
With FDR’s promise of “freedom from fear” America was going to help solve and keep international conflict at bay to make the world a more safe and peaceful place. With World War II fresh on the American mind we wanted to maintain peaceful and neutral feelings amongst all the countries of the world. For once America was looking at a gilded future, no longer littered with death and destruction. Roosevelt was an able and ambitious leader ready to forefront the effort to pull America from the depths of the depression and the great war.