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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What quality of Truman's does Isaacson claim was welcomed by the liaison between the State Department and the White House ?
(a) Truman's willingness to accept counsel.
(b) Truman's common perspective.
(c) Truman's forthrightness.
(d) Truman's predictability.

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

3. What does Isaacson report that members of the Truman Administration suggested caused the political opposition to the Truman Doctrine to confront Soviet Communism wherever it was asserted?
(a) Economic realists who were able to point out the long-term consequences of taxing labor to support foreign interventions.
(b) A "head-in-the-sand" mentality in flyover country over the urgency of turning back international communism.
(c) "A spirit of malaise" that blinded the public to understand America's role as the "indispensable nation."
(d) Isolationism and a "let Europe go" mood.

4. What does Isaacson claim to be Harriman's first crusade in his role with the Roosevelt Administration?
(a) To make rail transportation the exclusive means of transporting military equipment within the U.S. borders.
(b) To encourage the government to help increase the nation's rail freight capabilities.
(c) To gain federal funding for expanded rail road construction.
(d) To encourage the Fed to make low interest loans to investment banks.

5. 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?
(a) "...a struggle between totalitarianism and democracy."
(b) "...an unbridgeable ideological chasm."
(c) "...a test of free will against coercion."
(d) "...a contest between freedom and slavery."

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one of the first challenges facing the Truman Administration in dealing with the Soviet Union after WWII, according to Isaacson?

2. Who encouraged the United States to rearm and come out of what Isaacson claims to be a period of isolationism following WWI?

3. What was Bohlen's first assignment after he completed training in his field, according to Issacson?

4. With whom did John McCloy and Robert Lovett serve as advisers to the Secretary of War, according to Isaacson?

5. How does Isaacson claim Bohlen distinguished himself in the service of his first assignment?

(see the answer key)

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