1. Under whom does Isaacson report Kennan studied for his chosen field?
(a) Joseph Grew.
(b) William Castle.
(c) Angus Crawford.
(d) Alexander Kirk.

2. Where did John McCloy attend College according to Isaacson?
(a) Amherst.
(b) Yale.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Harvard.

3. When had Dean Acheson worked with Secretary of State George Marshall, prior to Marshall's appointment to the State Department, according to Isaacson?
(a) As a clerk to Supreme Court Justice William Howard Taft.
(b) During a campaign to shake America out of its post WWI "isolationism."
(c) While he was on the Yale crew coached by Averell Harriman.
(d) In China to mediate an end to the civil war between Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse Tung.

4. How does Isaacson claim President Truman planned to fight for support for the Marshall Plan in Congress?
(a) By advising Democrat congressmen to amend planks of the plan to popular legislation so it would eventually get passed out of the notice of political opponents.
(b) By calling for an emergency session of Congress and winning support for an "interim aid" bill.
(c) By campaigning across the country to rally popular support for the effort.
(d) By vetoing every spending bill until the plan was accepted in Congress.

5. Who does Isaacson report chose Kennan and Bohlen for service in the American Embassy in Moscow?
(a) The American Ambassador to Russia, William Bullitt.
(b) Secretary of State Elihu Root.
(c) President Franklin Roosevelt.
(d) Secretary of War Henry Lewis Stimson.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Isaacson claim Acheson described the division of the world between the United States and the Soviet Union during the crisis facing Greece and Turkey?

2. What two post-secondary schools does Isaacson report George Kennan attended?

3. Who coined the term "Iron Curtain" in a cable to President Truman?

4. Who was the Republican upon whom the Truman Administration focused to win support for the Marshall Plan, according to Isaacson?

5. What does Isaacson report that John McCloy called, "Something that is worse than anything probably that ever happened in the world"?

(see the answer key)

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