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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who called the National Guard in Arkansas in September 1957?
(a) The state senate.
(b) A black student.
(c) Governor Fabus.
(d) The Arkansas board of education.

2. What did Eisenhower think needed to happen for the invasion of France to be successful?
(a) The junior officers needed to step up.
(b) The Germans needed to be surprised.
(c) Everything needed to go perfectly according to plan.
(d) The new bombers needed to destroy the SS divisions near Caen.

3. What did people have trouble comprehending, according to Eisenhower?
(a) The power of atomic weapons.
(b) What acceptable losses meant.
(c) What M.A.D. was.
(d) The complexity of an atomic bomb.

4. What did Eisenhower think of a nuclear exchange with the USSR?
(a) There was a 54% chance of a first strike destroying the USSR's capacity to retaliate.
(b) NATO could prevent Soviet retaliation.
(c) No one could win.
(d) The U.S. could prevail with acceptable losses.

5. How much of the Iranian oil did the U.S. secure after the involvement of the CIA?
(a) 95%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 40%.
(d) 90%.

Short Answer Questions

1. What command did Eisenhower finally take in England?

2. Who did Eisenhower conflict with in the recent years, according to Chapter 14?

3. How did Eisenhower finish the school?

4. What happened in Russia in late 1957?

5. What was Eisenhower trying to do during the first year of his first term?

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