<u>Option 2: Carrying out programs assigned by Congress </u>
One of the duties of the Executive Branch, whose power is vested in the President, is to enforce laws. It does so by giving the executive branch agencies the task of enforcing the laws enacted by Congress. Each agency is granted a specific budget each year to carry out the task.
In the United States, there are 15 executive agencies: Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Justice, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury and Veteran's Affairs.
Answer:
C. Joint operations between the Allies drove the Germans out of the occupied territories.
Explanation:
In Africa the Americans learned that the Germans were still fighting well and hard. After the Germans and Italians were pushed out of Africa
The invasion of Sicily in 1943 affected Hitler's thinking as he called off the faltering German Summer Offensive in Russia to move SS Armored divisions to Northern Italy to backstop the defense.
This created an avenue for the allied forces leading to the success of them in their sorjourn in North Africa.
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Although the question is incomplete because you forgot to attach the excerpt from "The Origins of the Boxer Uprising" by Joseph W. Esherick, we can comment on the following.
According to Esherick, the Boxer Rebellion became such a famous historical event because it made a group of Chinese young men to have the consciousness of the consequences due China to the Western world influences and the Christian religion that some priest tried to evangelize in China.
In 1900, this group was known as the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists. They didn't like and never accepted the influence of Japan, neither the Western world culture. They started to protest and violently actions like attacking and killing foreign people, Christians, and destroyed private property.
