President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Four Freedoms

In the 1940s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Four Freedoms. These included Freedom of speech, Freedom of worship, Freedom from fear, and Freedom from want. Roosevelt stated that these rights were for the people no matter their race, gender, and where they lived. He needed to protect these Four Freedoms so that he could keep his word. The first two, Freedom of speech and worship are part of the First Amendment which keeps them secure. The second two, Freedom from want or fear are from The Bill of Rights. There were many opinions from different groups about the Four Freedoms such as, the Women's side, the Blacks side, and the people who are for it.

World War II goal was to make United States Citizens to believe in Freedom. During this time the only Freedom women wanted were based off of career opportunities. They wanted equal pay, a stable job and a chance to be individuals. Women finally had this opportunity to have a job when the men were off at war because they needed to take over their jobs while they were gone, except when the men came home, they took their jobs right back. Rosie the Riveter was a prime example of who the women of this time strived to be, a strong, independent women. Freedom for women at this time was only temporary which shows how the Four Freedoms did very little to help them.
The Four Freedoms did not help them, especially with Freedom from want or fear because of the suspicion that all people from Japanese descent were or could be spies. They believed that this war was a race war because the United States had past prejudices and aggression towards this race. Americans wanted their land so FDR created the Executive Order 9066, which moved about 100,000 Japanese-Americans to internment camps. The Japanese-Americans did not even have a chance to gain their Four Freedoms because of past