Question

read the excerpt(s) below and answer the questions that follow.
\ladies and gentlemen, can there be anyone here tonight who is so blind as to say that the war is not on? can there be anyone who fails to realize that the communist world has said, the time is now - that this is the time for the showdown between the democratic christian world and the communist atheistic world? ... the state department is infested with communists. i have here in my hand a list of 205 (individuals) that were known to the secretary of state as being members of the communist party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the state department.\
sen. joseph mccarthy
\(we are) going to continue to fight communism. now i am going to tell you how we are not going to fight communism: we are not going to transform our fine fbi into a gestapo secret police. that is what some people would like to do. we are not going to try to control what our people read and say and think. we are not going to turn the united states into a right - wing totalitarian country in order to deal with a left - wing totalitarian threat.\
president harry s. truman
based on the excerpt from sen. mccarthy, the cold war is a showdown between whom?
the democratic christian world and the communist atheistic world
communists and the secretary of state
people who are blind and people with good vision
ladies and gentlemen

Explanation:

The question asks who McCarthy frames the Cold War as a showdown between. Directly in his excerpt, he states this is a conflict between the democratic Christian world and the communist atheistic world. The other options do not match this explicit statement.

Answer:

The democratic Christian world and the communist atheistic world