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US President Franklin D. Roosevelt used his State of the Union Address in January, 1941 to outline the Four Freedoms he believed people the world over were entitled to and ought to enjoy. The freedoms were: (1) Freedom of speech (2) Freedom of worship (3) Freedom from want (4) Freedom from fear. By the end of the year, on December 7, Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor. On December 8, Roosevelt asked Congress for a Declaration of War on Japan, which was voted upon and passed immediately, thereby officially entering the US in World War II.
It was the spread of repressive political ideologies that ruled the Axis Powers -- Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan -- that the US and its allies were most determined to stop. These regimes ran under principles that were the exact opposites of the Four Freedoms. All were ruled by doctrines that punished, imprisoned or put to death those who practiced freedom of speech and worship. People under such tyrannical rule wanted for everything -- liberty, food, clothing, safety, hope -- and, they remained in constant fear of violating one of the many unwritten rules of such societies and being punished or put to death.
Had the Axis Powers won World War II, they would have attempted to rule their conquests as they did their own people, through fear, intimidation and deprivation. In many nations where the people had once enjoyed the Four Freedoms, they would have them no longer. This was a very real fear, and strong motivator for the Allies, throughout much of the war.
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