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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the atomic bombs had been detonated in Japan, what does Isaacson indicate to be the next challenge for the government in the post-war era?
(a) Preserving Germany's industrial capacity.
(b) Taking steps to control atomic weapons.
(c) Restoring Europe's economy.
(d) Finding work for all the veterans.

2. Who does Issacson report to have written a telegram that claimed fear that war could come, "with dramatic suddenness"?
(a) General Douglas MacArthur.
(b) Former Secretary of War Henry Stimson.
(c) General Lucius Clay, the Military Governor of Germany.
(d) George Kennan.

3. Who wrote the top-secret "recommendations for the use of nuclear weapons"?
(a) Colonel Paul Tibbets.
(b) Douglas MacArthur.
(c) J. Robert Oppenheimer.
(d) Harry Truman.

4. Who does Isaacson report to have offered proposals that the United States develop an intelligence-gathering system?
(a) James Forrestal.
(b) Dean Acheson.
(c) General Hoyt Vandenberg.
(d) George Kennan.

5. 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 having a picnic with his wife at his Maryland farm.
(c) He was in a movie house wathcing Ninotchka.
(d) He was at his desk in the War Department.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What event early in WWII does Isaacson quote John McCloy as calling, "...regrettable in the clear light of perfect hindsight"?

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

4. When had Dean Acheson worked with Secretary of State George Marshall, prior to Marshall's appointment to the State Department, according to Isaacson?

5. What unusual practice did Soviet pilots take as they flew in approach to Russian cities, according to Isaacson?

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