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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 Clark Clifford wrote in a campaign memo to use the Soviet Crisis to help President Truman's re-election campaign for 1948?
(a) "Never waste a good crisis."
(b) "In times of crisis, the American citizen tends to back up his President."
(c) "This gives us the opportunity to make voters fear a change at this time."
(d) "Great wars define great leaders."

2. What does Isaacson claim to be the most elite club at Yale?
(a) Ivy.
(b) DKE.
(c) Scroll and Key.
(d) Skull and Bones.

3. What does Isaacson report to be a weakness Bohlen exhibited in the execution of his profession?
(a) He was often too risky with investor's funds.
(b) His social proclivities caused embarrasments for other Administration officials.
(c) His penmanship was poor and he never learned to type.
(d) His poor manners offended the keepers of protocol.

4. Isaacson reports that Averell Harriman took what position in the Roosevelt Administration?
(a) Assistant director to the Federal Reserve.
(b) Railroad advisor to the Department of Commerce.
(c) Transportation adviser for the new National Defense Advisory Commission.
(d) Assistant Secretary of War.

5. Which of the "Wise Men," according to Isaacson, attended The Hill School in Philadelphia?
(a) George Kennan.
(b) Robert Lovett.
(c) Chip Bohlen.
(d) John McCloy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What approach did Wall Street favor regarding the future of Germany's industrial base during plans for the post-war era, according to Isaacson?

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

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

4. What decision did Secretary of State Edward Stettinius make that Isaacson claimed frustrated Harriman?

5. What does Isaacson claim to have been America's foreign policy following WWI?

(see the answer key)

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