Answer:
D. Like the Soviets, people in democracies worried about a different form of government.
According to the passage, "Just as Soviets were afraid to let their citizens be exposed to democratic ideas, people in democracies were also afraid of communists.” Although they were both afraid of different ideas, the two groups shared a similar worry over a form of government different from their own.
Explanation:
According to the passage, people in democracies were similar to the people in the Soviet Union as, "like the Soviets, people in democracies worried about a different form of government."
Abraham Lincoln states that Democracy is "Of the people, by the people, for the people". The word democracy comes from the Greek word "demos", meaning people, and "kratos" meaning power. So democracy can be thought of as "power of the people": a way of governing which depends on the will of the people.
Soviet Union is a powerful group of Communist republics ( countries without a king or queen) including Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, and 11 others that existed in Europe and Asia from 1922 to 1991. The Soviet Union was one of the most centralized regimes in the world.
The United States and the Soviet Union both feared each other and tried to influence other nations. They built up their nuclear arsenals, but then worked to limit them through treaties. Both established alliances for protection, and each supported opposing sides in global conflicts between communism and democracy.
The Soviet Union was a Communist country while the USA was a Capitalist country, in efforts to stop the communism from spreading, the United States President Truman offered help to any country that was under military threat, with hopes that this would prevent Communism from spreading.
Hence, the answer was given and explained above.
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