Author Question: The Dies Committee was originally designed to __________. A) recommend social welfare reforms B) ... (Read 96 times)

NClaborn · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

McCarthy's accusations reached absurdity when he claimed Communist agents included __________.

A) President Eisenhower
B) Secretary of State George Marshall
C) Elvis Presley
D) HUAC committeeman Richard Nixon

Question 2

The major importance of the Alger Hiss case was that __________.

A) Hiss had clearly stolen top-security documents from the State Department
B) Whittaker Chambers was convicted of perjury
C) people began to place more importance on Hiss as a symbol than as an alleged spy
D) it cast suspicions upon the Eisenhower administration for the first time

Question 3

The Dies Committee was originally designed to __________.

A) recommend social welfare reforms
B) identify and ferret out pro-fascists
C) investigate communist conspiracies
D) investigate Joseph McCarthy's background