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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Isaacson suggest shaped President Johnson's views on dealing with Soviet Communism?
(a) Johnson's admiration for the Truman Administration's confrontation of communist imperialism.
(b) The views of Dean Acheson as he served as a congressman in the late 1940's.
(c) The viciousness with which Joseph Stalin purged political enemies throughout his reign.
(d) Johnson's desire to show his power against that of the leaders of the Soviet Union.

2. What does Isaacson report to be Dean Acheson's view of Congress' involvement in presidential foreign policy decisions regarding Vietnam?
(a) Acheson was outraged that Congress should dare to interfere with the foreign policy preogative of the Executive.
(b) Acheson believed that congressional involvement in foreign affairs would kill democracy.
(c) Acheson was appalled that a domestic legislative body felt itself qualified to influence such delicate relationships with people of whom it was ignorant.
(d) Acheson was encouraged that representative government could take such an active role for the defense of the interests of the country internationally.

3. How did communist cells throughout Europe respond to the Marshall Plan?
(a) They started programs of social support for European laborers to win political support for their agendas.
(b) They posed as businesses that received funds that were then put into programs to promote communism.
(c) They would attempt to disrupt governments and try to bring them down.
(d) They began a program of counterfeiting currencies to cause an inflationary cycle.

4. Upon whom does Isaacson claim that Stimson relied to help him achieve his goal regarding the control of the atom bomb?
(a) Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal.
(b) Dean Acheson as Under Secretary of State.
(c) State Department Liaison to the White House, John McCloy.
(d) Commerce Secretary Henry Wallace.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Isaacson write of what became of the "Six Wise Men" after Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president in 1952?

2. 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?

3. How does Isaacson detail how the last of the "Six Wise Men" whom President-Elect Kennedy called affected Kennedy's decision for Secretary of State?

4. What was one of the first challenges facing the Truman Administration in dealing with the Soviet Union after WWII, according to Isaacson?

5. What was a personal factor that made the "Six Wise Men" unpopular to the general public, according to Isaacson?

(see the answer key)

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