The process known as "thinning out the rice shoots" refers to
A. the Japanese decision to follow the Chinese tradition of limiting governmental positions.
B. the Chinese decision to reduce the number of visiting Korean students.
C. an agricultural innovation introduced by the Chinese.
D. a Japanese attempt to limit population growth.
E. a Japanese attempt to reduce the number of foreigners living in Japan.
Answer: D
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Which of the following led to the rapid demise of the Red Scare of 1919?
a. its ineffectiveness b. its extremism c. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer’s opposition to it d. the lack of a genuine threat to the United States
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A) restore the Indian peoples and make the whites disappear. B) convert all Indians to Christianity. C) teach Plains Indians to farm. D) make Indians invulnerable to white's bullets.
After independence, India faced the problem of
a. a Muslim majority in the Hindu nation of India. b. the permanent loss of Kashmir and Hyderabad. c. the poverty and the illiteracy of the majority of the population. d. a demoralized leadership. e. the lack of an experienced civil service or bureaucracy.