B - rading about the remains of an ancient statue.
While both A and C are very romantic, both would take ages for a professional working archaeologist to dig up anything useful in a reasonable amount of time. The most effective thing that he can do is read primary sources and based on those decide where a temple stood.
Answer:
Correct answer is A. turned over documents proving that Soviets were trying to infiltrate the U.S. government.
Explanation:
Option A is correct because this event created a massive retaliation in the United States, where many people were marked as Communists, sometimes even without evidences.
Venona project was started during WW2 with a goal to decrypt messages that were sent by Soviet intelligence agencies.
McCarran Act was introduced in 1950, with a goal to act against Communism in US.
D is also not correct as many in Hollywood were marked as Communist and there were testimonies against them even on courts.
The answer is B periodization