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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Isaacson reports which "Wise Man" worked to implement Franklin Roosevelt's Lend Lease program?
(a) John McCloy.
(b) Henry Stimson.
(c) George Kennan.
(d) Dean Acheson.

2. What does Isaacson report Vice President Harry Truman was doing when news of President Roosevelt's death was first leaked?
(a) Truman was having dinner with his family as was his custom at that time of the day.
(b) Truman was in the Vice President's office adjacent to the Senate floor preparing to go home for the evening.
(c) Truman was in Sam Rayburn's hideaway in the Capitol Building playing cards.
(d) Truman was in a foreign policy briefing with the Council of Foreign Relations.

3. What does Isaacson report that John McCloy called, "Something that is worse than anything probably that ever happened in the world"?
(a) The death of Franklin Roosevelt.
(b) The devastation caused to Germany from WWII.
(c) The rift that was coming between the Soviet Union and the United States.
(d) The dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima.

4. What decision did Harriman influence Stalin to make, according to Isaacson, to get around the decision of Secretary Stettinius?
(a) He influenced Stalin to reject the replacement Stettinius planned to send.
(b) He used his connections in the Kremlin to navigate some of Stettinius's negotiations.
(c) He advised Stalin to negotiate directly with Churchill to counter Stettinius' efforts.
(d) To send Vyacheslav Molotov to the grand opening of the United Nations so Harriman could accompany him on the trip.

5. What does Isaacson suggest to be one of the largest factors in America's rise to prominence after WWII?
(a) America's ability to be self-sufficient.
(b) America's ability to convert consumer production to war production.
(c) America's size and population relative to most other countries.
(d) Britain's inability to support its empire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What exclusive club did Chip Bohlen join at Harvard according to Isaacson?

2. What does Isaacson report to be the warning the Allied powers gave to the Japanese regarding the dropping of the atomic bomb?

3. What does Isaacson report to have been the reaction to communist tactics against the Marshall Plan?

4. How does Isaacson report that Clark Clifford understood the rivalry between the U.S. and the Soviet Union had to be framed to make the general public support confronting the Communists?

5. Which of the "Wise Men" does Isaacson report to have served in active service during WWI?

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