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

2. What was Eisenhower's reaction to the Soviet's answer to his proposal?
(a) He was disappointed.
(b) He was happy.
(c) He was not surprised.
(d) He was still hopeful.

3. Who announced his intention not to run for President again?
(a) Kennedy.
(b) Nixon.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Eisenhower.

4. How long did it take for Eisenhower to sign an armistice with the KPA?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 18 months.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 6 months.

5. What did Eisenhower want to do after his first term was up?
(a) Have an ambassador position.
(b) Run for President again.
(c) Try to undermine Nixon.
(d) Retire.

6. What was France trying to get the U.S. to help with?
(a) It's relationship with Germany.
(b) An economic situation.
(c) A submarine program.
(d) The fight in Vietnam.

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

8. Who was at the head of Russia in 1958?
(a) Putin.
(b) Stalin.
(c) Khrushchev.
(d) Bregnev.

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

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

11. Who did Eisenhower win over in the presidential election of 1956?
(a) Stevenson.
(b) Nixon.
(c) Kennedy.
(d) Johnson.

12. What did Khrushchev propose to Eisenhower that Eisenhower refused?
(a) A summit in London.
(b) A summit in Ankara.
(c) A summit in Paris.
(d) A summit in Berlin.

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

14. Where was Eisenhower hospitalized in 1969?
(a) St. Marie.
(b) Ronald Regan Hospital.
(c) Walter Reed Hospital.
(d) St. Sulpice.

15. Who occasionally called Eisenhower for advice?
(a) Lyndon Johnson.
(b) Gerald Ford.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) John F. Kennedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was lost at the end of the senate hearing on Communism?

2. Who called the National Guard in Arkansas in September 1957?

3. What did Arkansas do in September 1958 after the National Guard was recalled?

4. What did Eisenhower think was more important than what the military was asking for?

5. What did Eisenhower discover quickly after the start of the summit?

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