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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Economic realists who were able to point out the long-term consequences of taxing labor to support foreign interventions.
(b) "A spirit of malaise" that blinded the public to understand America's role as the "indispensable nation."
(c) Isolationism and a "let Europe go" mood.
(d) A "head-in-the-sand" mentality in flyover country over the urgency of turning back international communism.

2. Under which president did Dean Acheson serve in the Attorney General's office?
(a) Franklin Roosevelt.
(b) Herbert Hoover.
(c) Calvin Coolidge.
(d) Harry Truman.

3. With whom does Isaacson report Harriman shared responsibility that came to him after the meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill?
(a) John McCloy.
(b) Lord Beaverbrook, Churchill's Minister of Supply.
(c) Robert Lovett.
(d) Admiral William Standley.

4. What were the three questions President Truman wrote regarding America's confrontation with Soviet aggression?
(a) "Can the communists really support such a spread of empire? Does communism have any real chance of surviving in our system? How much is this going to cost the government?"
(b) "Will Russia move first? Who pulls the trigger? Then where do we go?"
(c) "Can we afford to confront the Soviets? Will the voters support us? Can the country survive more wars?"
(d) "What is our move when Russia moves? Should we move first? Who pulls the trigger?"

5. What does Isaacson suggest started becoming a concern to the six "Wise Men" shortly after WWII began?
(a) "America's stormy relationship with her Soviet Allies."
(b) "Isolationist directing public policy placed America in peril during the early months of the war."
(c) "In public...Roosevelt would henceforth proclaim that the Atlantic Charter...was the foundaton of American foreign policy."
(d) "Stalin could be blunt, but then so could Harriman."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Isaacson claim to be the goal of the "Wise Men"?

2. What does Isaacson report Vice President Harry Truman was doing when news of President Roosevelt's death was first leaked?

3. When and where was the first atomic bomb used on Japan?

4. How does Isaacson report that Averell Harriman's support for the successful presidential candidacy of Franklin Roosevelt was rewarded in 1932?

5. 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?

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