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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did President Eisenhower choose for his Ambassador to Russia, according to Isaacson?
(a) George Kennan.
(b) Averell Harriman.
(c) Dean Acheson.
(d) Chip Bohlen.

2. What concern does Isaacson claim motivated Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson to encourage America's financial support for Greece?
(a) That an economic collapse in Greece would expose the weakness of America's "dollar diplomacy."
(b) That an economic collapse in Greece would be widely seen as a failure of market systems.
(c) A possible takeover of Greece by communists as a result of a civil war.
(d) That an economic collapse in Greece would lead to a general economic collapse throughout Europe.

3. What does Isaacson report that President Truman did to decide America's response to the Soviet Union's possession of nuclear weapons?
(a) He appointed a three-man national security committee.
(b) He polled his cabinet and based his response on its concensus.
(c) He courted the press to show the film of Russia's nuclear explosion to convince the public of the urgent need for increased military spending.
(d) He sent out the "Wise Men" to conduct town hall meetings to explain the danger facing the country from Soviet nuclear weapons.

4. When had Dean Acheson worked with Secretary of State George Marshall, prior to Marshall's appointment to the State Department, according to Isaacson?
(a) During a campaign to shake America out of its post WWI "isolationism."
(b) As a clerk to Supreme Court Justice William Howard Taft.
(c) In China to mediate an end to the civil war between Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse Tung.
(d) While he was on the Yale crew coached by Averell Harriman.

5. What does Isaacson claim to be the reason that Harriman and Dean Acheson supported making post-war loans to the Soviets?
(a) Both realized that the Soviet economy was unproductive and felt that loans could nudge the Soviets to a market economy.
(b) Both considered loans to be a show of good faith that the U.S. was willing to work with the Soviets in spite of ideological differences.
(c) Both saw the loans as a means of gaining bargaining leverage with the Kremlin.
(d) Both considered that the friendship of the Soviets could be bought.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Dean Acheson believe the U.S. should get involved in the war between North and South Korea, according to Isaacson?

2. With whom does Isaacson report Harriman shared responsibility that came to him after the meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill?

3. How did Isaacson claim Acheson described the division of the world between the United States and the Soviet Union during the crisis facing Greece and Turkey?

4. What does Isaacson claim to be the most elite club at Yale?

5. What decision did Harriman influence Stalin to make, according to Isaacson, to get around the decision of Secretary Stettinius?

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