" The conflict is still sharpening throughout the world between two political systems. The

one system represents government by freedom of choice exercised by the individual

citizens. In the other, and opposing system, individual freedom and initiative are all made

subordinate to the totalitarian state."

By President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1938

What was the ultimate result of the situation President Roosevelt refers to in this excerpt?

A. surge of social unrest in South America

B. The outbreak of World War II

C. A shift in favor of the policy of appeasement

D. The overthrow of the monarchy in Russia