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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Eisenhower think of the next President and the relationship with the Russians?
(a) The next President would have to be strong.
(b) Peace would not be the next President's main focus.
(c) The next President could not hesitate to launch the missiles.
(d) The next President could not be Communist.

2. What was the topic of the conference in which the Russians agreed to participate in 1958?
(a) Prisoner exchange.
(b) Vietnam.
(c) Space flight.
(d) Talk about supervision of nuclear weapons testing.

3. What did Eisenhower do to protect American interests in Iran?
(a) Take the main port to pressure the Shah.
(b) Invade Iran.
(c) Oust Mossadegh and return the shah to power.
(d) Give Iran weapons to fight its insurgency.

4. What did Eisenhower think the U.S. had enough of?
(a) Tanks.
(b) Rockets.
(c) Airplanes.
(d) Atomic weapons.

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

6. Who did Eisenhower's investigation on Communist influence single out?
(a) Fermi.
(b) Oppenheimer.
(c) Teller.
(d) Bohm

7. What was lost at the end of the senate hearing on Communism?
(a) Eisenhower's will to continue being President.
(b) McCarthy's credibility.
(c) The plans for the H bomb.
(d) All traces of Oppenheimer.

8. What did Eisenhower refuse to do for the French?
(a) Intervene in their internal affairs.
(b) Give them the back section of a submarine.
(c) Use the H Bomb on Vietnam.
(d) Intervene in Algeria.

9. What was settled at the end of the Summit?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The nuclear testing problem.
(c) The prisoner of war problem.
(d) Everything.

10. What did Eisenhower think an armistice was, according to Chapter 13?
(a) A defeat.
(b) A victory.
(c) A way to stall.
(d) A way to save face.

11. What did Eisenhower try to convince Nixon of?
(a) Run for President.
(b) Abandon politics.
(c) Take himself off the 1956 ticket.
(d) Give the money he stole back.

12. When did the British sign the cease fire in Egypt?
(a) They never signed a cease fire.
(b) 2 days after Eisenhower was sworn into office.
(c) November 5, 1957.
(d) The day of the 1956 presidential election.

13. Who did the British agree to turn the canal over to after negotiating with Eisenhower?
(a) Russia.
(b) Israel.
(c) NATO.
(d) The U.S.

14. What happened to Eisenhower in November 1957, according to Chapter 19?
(a) He had a heart attack.
(b) He broke his pelvis.
(c) He broke an arm.
(d) He suffered a stroke.

15. What did Eisenhower come to the conclusion of concerning the H bomb?
(a) Oppenheimer sold secrets to the Russians.
(b) Oppenheimer hid the results of the project.
(c) Oppenheimer did his best.
(d) Oppenheimer stalled its development.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who occasionally called Eisenhower for advice?

2. What happened in Russia in late 1957?

3. How much surplus did the U.S. have in 1960?

4. What happened after Eisenhower requested American scientists have access to more test sites in Soviet Russia?

5. What did the Soviets think of Eisenhower's proposal, according to Chapter 13?

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