Read the following excerpt and pick which statement best summarizes the text.
"The Spread of the Great Depression as U.S. factories closed and banks failed, Americans did less and less business overseas, thus spreading the Great Depression through much of the world. Across Europe, factories slowed production or shut their doors. Millions of workers lost their jobs. Workers spent day after day searching for work or begging for handouts. On the street corners of crowded cities, from London to Berlin to Rome, unemployed workers.
Europe's parliaments struggled to deal with the Great Depression. As the hard times worsened and people saw their hopes crushed, they grew restless and bitter. Many saw the the Depression was the fault of factory owners and capitalism. Others blamed the leaders they had elected. In many cities, frustrations erupted in riots and protests. The situation in Germany was especially unstable. The nation's economy was a wreck, even though Germany had largely escaped the physical damage of World War I. No French or British bombardments had leveled German cities. The country's fields were undamaged, and its cities and factories still functional. Germans tended to blame foreigners, minorities for the countries problems when rather than face their nations problems. Germany's post-war government was ineffective. In 1919, the nation became a republic. Many Germans complained that democracy had only made things worse, splintering politicians into parties that did nothing but argue while the economy went to ruin. Extremist parties of Communists and Fascists(Nazis) became more powerful.
In Europe, a kind of totalitarianism called fascism (FA-shi-zuhm) was taking root. In the 1930s, fascist governments glorified the nation above all else. They insisted that all citizens put the interests of the state ahead of their individual interests. Fascist thinking grew out of feelings of nationalism that had swept Europe in the decades leading up to World War I. After the chaos of the war, people desperately longed for order, stability, and something to believe in. Power-hungry leaders channeled the people's desperation into the idea of devotion to their state. Nationalism, taken to an extreme, rotted into fascism"
A.The text describes how the United States saved Europe after WWI and helped build successful democracies there.
B.The text highlights the specific ways in which the Soviet Union became a
powerful and industrialized nation under the authoritarian rule of Stalin.
C.The text demonstrates how the economic and political chaos of WWI and the Great Depression led to the rise of Fascist dictators in Europe.
D.The text outlines the rise and fall of totalitarian leaders during both of the world
wars.
