Roosevelt’s four freedoms speech signaled a shift in us foreign policy from isolationism to

Internationalism

Explanation:

President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed his Four Freedoms speech on June 7th of 1941. During his speech Roosevelt stated that all people of all nations shared the same four freedoms: freedom of speech, expression, worship God, from want and from fear.

With this, he wanted to convince the Congress that the US should abandon the foreign policy of neutrality because Hitler’s regime was dangerous and hurting people. He defended that the US should take a stronger interventionist role on WWII.

1. international: struggle for hegemony and empire outstrips the fiscal resources of the state

2. political conflict: conflict between the monarchy and the nobility over the “reform” of the tax system led to paralysis and bankruptcy.

3. the enlightenment: impulse for reform intensifies political conflicts; reinforces traditional aristocratic constitutionalism, one variant of which was laid out in montequieu’s spirit of the laws; introduces new notions of good government, the most radical being popular sovereignty, as in rousseau’s social contract [1762]; the attack on the regime and privileged class by the literary underground of “grub street; ” the broadening influence of public opinion.

4. social antagonisms between two rising groups: the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie

5. ineffective ruler: louis xvi

6. economic hardship, especially the agrarian crisis of 1788-89 generates popular discontent and disorders caused by food shortages.

c) they were beaten and fired from their jobs.