What were the four freedoms and how exactly was the emergence of the four freedoms connected to the history of the previous decade?

The four freedoms were freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear.

Roosevelt compared the Four Freedoms with the Ten Commandments, the Magna Carta,and the Emancipation Proclamation.

They embodied the “right of men of every creed and every race, wherever they live” andmade clear “the crucial differences between ourselves and the enemies we face today.”