Stung by anticommunist critics, in 1947 President Truman issued an executive order that authorized the FBI to
A) dismiss communist sympathizers from the State Department.
B) conduct U.S. espionage operations abroad.
C) arrest former communists.
D) investigate all government employees.
D
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Chinese language under Tang rule was similar to Latin in that they both
A. served to bring about cultural and intellectual unity among speakers. B. lost significant numbers of speakers after the rulers that supported them died. C. were primarily religious languages. D. used an alphabet rather than a logographic system of writing.
The American Revolution affected Europeans by
A) proving that military force was the final diplomatic authority. B) ending colonial expansion around the world. C) proving that the new United States was the most powerful nation. D) proving that the ideas of the Enlightenment could be realized politically. E) proving that the patriotic shedding of vast amounts of blood could bring revolutionary change.
In the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, the Supreme Court ruled that cities and states had
A. the legal right to require poll taxes and literacy tests. B. no right to segregate public amenities. C. the legal right to segregate public amenities. D. no right to require poll taxes and literacy tests.