Question

Read the excerpt from President Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" speech: During sixteen long months this assault has blotted out the whole pattern of democratic life in an appalling number of independent nations, great and small. The assailants are still on the march, threatening other nations, great and small. Therefore as your President, performing my constitutional duty to 'give to the Congress information of the state of the Union,' I find it, unhappily, necessary to report that the future and the safety of our country and of our democracy are overwhelmingly involved in events far beyond our borders. What is the theme of this excerpt?

A. Fear of communism
B. An argument for international cooperation
C. A threat to American security
D. Gratitude to live in a democracy

Answer 1

Answer:c

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

C. A threat to American security

Step-by-step explanation:

IN this excerpt Roosevelt is speaking about the threat that the war being fought in Europe and Asia represented to the soveraignity and the peace in the United States of America, with this speech Roosevelt wanted to encourage the congress and the house to take actions and be involved in the war, and to alert the general public of the menace that it represented.