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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Isaacson cite as "...perhaps the most dramatic and significant (conversion) of any postwar American statesman"?
(a) The conversion of Dean Acheson to a hard-line stance on dealing with the Soviets.
(b) The conversion of Averell Harriman from a market capitalist to seeing the value of socialism in some systems.
(c) The conversion of John McCloy to being an internationalist to being an isolationist.
(d) The conversion of Harry Truman from being a non-interventionist to being an internationalist.

2. After Roosevelt and Churchill made their agreement, what became the responsibility of Averell Harriman?
(a) To travel to Moscow to offer aid to the government of the Soviet Union in their confrontation against Germany.
(b) To direct the shift in the balance of power between England and the United States.
(c) To direct the formation of foreign policy from Washington.
(d) To act as a strong man against Stalin's bluntness.

3. 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) Trying to prevent the Soviet Union from taking German industrial equipment and charging reparations against Germany.
(c) Slowing the influence of Soviet communism over the Maoist movement in China.
(d) Blocking the Soviet Union from attempting to set terms of peace with Japan.

4. What does Isaacson claim the Secretary of War called Lovett and McCloy?
(a) "The Dynamic Duo."
(b) "Two of a kind."
(c) "The Heavenly Twins."
(d) "The Minnesota Twins."

5. Which of the "Wise Men" does Isaacson report to be the son of a wealthy railway tycoon?
(a) Chip Bohlen.
(b) Robert Lovett.
(c) Dean Acheson.
(d) Averell Harriman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Isaacson claim Averell Harriman was when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941?

2. How does Isaacson report that Clark Clifford understood the rivalry between the U.S. and the Soviet Union had to be framed to make the general public support confronting the Communists?

3. Who coined the term "Iron Curtain" in a cable to President Truman?

4. Which of the six "Wise Men" does Isaacson report Roosevelt's Secretary of War asked to work on German espionage?

5. According to Isaacson, why did did George Kennan oppose the development of more powerful nuclear weapons?

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