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

2. Where does Isaacson claim Averell Harriman was when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941?
(a) He was visiting Winston Churchill in his country home in Chequers.
(b) He was at his desk in the War Department.
(c) He was having a picnic with his wife at his Maryland farm.
(d) He was in a movie house wathcing Ninotchka.

3. Who coined the term "Iron Curtain" in a cable to President Truman?
(a) Henry Stimson.
(b) John McCloy.
(c) Winston Churchill.
(d) George Kennan.

4. Who does Isaacson claim Dean Acheson supported for the 1960 Democrat Presidential Nomination?
(a) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(b) Stuart Symington.
(c) John F. Kennedy.
(d) Hubert H. Humphrey.

5. Where does Isaacson indicate two crises confronted the Kennedy Adminstration in 1961?
(a) Peking and Moscow.
(b) Vietnam and Czechoslovakia.
(c) Laos and Berlin.
(d) Iran and Israel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the State Department's Liaison with the White House during the transfer of power from Roosevelt to Truman?

2. What does Isaacson cite as "...perhaps the most dramatic and significant (conversion) of any postwar American statesman"?

3. What concern does Isaacson claim motivated Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson to encourage America's financial support for Greece?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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