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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What role did Frank Wisner play in Kennan's plans for confronting Soviet expansionism?
(a) He became a policy director for the Truman Administration in its effort to discover communist subversion activities.
(b) He ran the "Department of Dirty Tricks" within the CIA.
(c) He became a European mediator between activists and their targets.
(d) He became the congressional liaison for the Truman Administration informing it of Congress' mood for the international activities to contain communism.

2. What State Department official does Isaacson report to have been determined to bring the United States into a "Western Union" military alliance?
(a) Robert Lovett.
(b) John Hickerson.
(c) Donald Maclean.
(d) Theodore Achilles.

3. Isaacson reports which "Wise Man" worked to implement Franklin Roosevelt's Lend Lease program?
(a) John McCloy.
(b) George Kennan.
(c) Henry Stimson.
(d) Dean Acheson.

4. What event early in WWII does Isaacson quote John McCloy as calling, "...regrettable in the clear light of perfect hindsight"?
(a) The relocation of citizens of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast.
(b) Roosevelt's decision to prioritize the war in Europe rather than the Pacific.
(c) Becoming an ally with the Soviet Union.
(d) Naming Douglas MacArthur as Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific.

5. What was one of the first challenges facing the Truman Administration in dealing with the Soviet Union after WWII, according to Isaacson?
(a) Dealing with Soviet front groups in the United States.
(b) Slowing the influence of Soviet communism over the Maoist movement in China.
(c) Blocking the Soviet Union from attempting to set terms of peace with Japan.
(d) Trying to prevent the Soviet Union from taking German industrial equipment and charging reparations against Germany.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Isaacson claim Chip Bohlen became an important American diplomat in Russia?

3. Which of the "Wise Men's" father does Isaacson claim worked for E.H. Harriman with Union Pacific Rail Road?

4. Who was the Supreme Court Justice for whom Dean Acheson clerked?

5. What does Isaacson claim to be the the Soviet's view of keeping security?

(see the answer key)

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