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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Isaacson record that Mao claimed to be the source of Chinese soldiers in North Korean combat units?
(a) Mao claimed that China was not involved, that there were no Chinese soldiers in Korea.
(b) Mao claimed that they were Russians equipped by China.
(c) Mao claimed they were Chinese volunteers who were protecting Chinese hydroelectric plants along the Yalu River.
(d) Mao claimed that they were communist sympathizers from throughout Asia seeking to ignite the international revolution.

2. With what investment house did Isaacson claim Averell Harriman merged W.A. Harriman & Co.?
(a) Goldman Sachs.
(b) Lehman Brothers.
(c) Knight Wooley & Company.
(d) Brown Brothers & Company.

3. What did Winston Churchill recommend as a solution to the challenge of growing Soviet Power?
(a) Forming NATO .
(b) An Anglo-American alliance.
(c) Improving working conditions to prevent labor upheavals.
(d) Economic warfare.

4. What does Isaacson report to be the differences between the negotiating styles of Roosevelt and Truman?
(a) Roosevelt was indifferent, but Truman was sensitive.
(b) Roosevelt was high strung, but Truman was contemplative.
(c) Roosevelt could be manipulative and conniving with people and public opinion, but Truman was forthright to the point of bluntness.
(d) Roosevelt eschewed advice, but Truman ruled by consensus.

5. What does Isaacson define as the main political challenge to the Truman Administration encouraging Congress to support financial aid to Greece and Turkey?
(a) Congress was more interested in focusing on domestic issues than it was with foreign interventions.
(b) Americans had become weary of international interventions in the aftermath of WWII.
(c) Harry Truman had become politically unpopular since the Democrats lost their congressional majority during the 1946 mid-term elections.
(d) The elections of 1946 brought popular support to balancing budgets and ending foreign spending.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Isaacson report to be the legacy of Harvard's President Charles Elliot after his 40 year tenure ended in 1909?

3. Isaacson reports that Averell Harriman took what position in the Roosevelt Administration?

4. What does Isaacson claim to be the reason that Harriman and Dean Acheson supported making post-war loans to the Soviets?

5. Which two of the "Wise Men" does Isaacson claim understood the importance of trade and global involvement from their careers on Wall Street?

(see the answer key)

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