"FDR 1941 State of the Union Address"

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by Franklin D. Roosevelt

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.

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 fourth 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.

That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.

To that new order we oppose the greater conception--the moral order. A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1941 State of the Union Address, "The Four Freedoms"

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Use the passage to answer the question.

How does this passage clarify President Roosevelt's position that neutrality is impossible in January of 1941?

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by creating a dichotomy between the "new order of tyranny" and the "moral order"
by creating a dichotomy between the "new order of tyranny" and the "moral order"

by outlining four essential freedoms that all people everywhere should enjoy
by outlining four essential freedoms that all people everywhere should enjoy

by questioning the effectiveness of foreign revolutions
by questioning the effectiveness of foreign revolutions

by presenting his vision of a "distant millennium"
by presenting his vision of a "distant millennium"
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Answer 1

The correct response is:

by creating a dichotomy between the "new order of tyranny" and the "moral order."

This choice clarifies Roosevelt's position that neutrality is impossible by contrasting the aggressive and oppressive nature of the dictators' "new order" with the positive vision of a "moral order" based on essential freedoms. It suggests that remaining neutral would mean acquiescing to tyranny, which is incompatible with the moral principles he advocates.