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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Isaacson, what event took place between Harriman and the person with whom he was sharing responsibility that foreshadowed the role of the two countries they represented in their places in Western leadership?
(a) Harriman and Beaverbrook had an animated clash during which Harriman insisted that England and the U.S. would determine jointly the distribution of war resources, rather than England alone.
(b) Harriman and John Lovett developed plans for deciding who would get Allied war support without input from Britain.
(c) Harriman and John McCloy developed Allied policy positions without referring to the Soviets.
(d) Harriman had a confrontational argument with Leon Trotsky regarding financial aid.

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

3. 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 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 having dinner with his family as was his custom at that time of the day.

4. How did George Kennan contribute to Acheson's effort to win support for Greece and Turkey, according to Isaacson?
(a) Kennan found a Russian exile to meet with congressmen to detail the plans of the Soviet government for overtaking all of Europe.
(b) Kennan lent the cause credibility by showing how doing so would be an application of his popular document of containment.
(c) Kennan wrote a speech that gave undeniable arguments in support for the cause.
(d) Kennan took a film crew to make a documentary of the desparation of Greece and Turkey.

5. Upon whom does Isaacson claim that Stimson relied to help him achieve his goal regarding the control of the atom bomb?
(a) Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal.
(b) State Department Liaison to the White House, John McCloy.
(c) Commerce Secretary Henry Wallace.
(d) Dean Acheson as Under Secretary of State.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Averell Harriman join the most elite club at Yale according to Isaacson?

3. Who does Issacson report to have written a telegram that claimed fear that war could come, "with dramatic suddenness"?

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

5. What does Isaacson cite as the difference between Kennan's and Chip Bohlen's approach to preparing for their chosen field?

(see the answer key)

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