One result of the anticommunist crusade during the late 1940s and early 1950s was the dismissal, as a "security risk," of ______________________________.

A. alcoholics, homosexuals, and debtors in the employ of the federal government
B. J. Edgar Hoover from the Federal Bureau of Investigation
C. Ethel and Julius Rosenberg from the State Department
D. Henry A. Wallace as Secretary of Commerce


Answer: A

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