12. Read this excerpt from President Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" speech: Armed defense of democratic existence is now being gallantly waged in four continents. If that defense fails, all the population

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12. Read this excerpt from President Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" speech: Armed

defense of democratic existence is now being gallantly waged in four continents.
If that defense fails, all the population and all the resources of Europe, Asia,
Africa and Australasia will be dominated by the conquerors. Let us remember
that the total of those populations and their resources in those four continents
greatly exceeds the sum total of the population and the resources of the whole
of the Western Hemisphere-many times over. What is the theme of this excerpt?
A. A dismissal of the current threat
B. The enormity of the threat to democracy
C. A plea for international cooperation
D. Atonement for colonial policies