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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the reason Isaacson suggests that John McCLoy's mother encouraged him to tutor children of her wealthy clients during summers away from school?
(a) Because he would be better able to continue his advanced studies while working with younger children.
(b) Because the pay was better than taking one of the part-time jobs in the city.
(c) It was his mother's way of assuring he would make the right social contacts.
(d) So he could be networking for a good career.

2. What does Isaacson claim to be Bohlen's view of Bolshevism?
(a) He was nonjudgemental and unreflective about Bolshevism.
(b) He reviled in the violent destruction Bolsheviks were willing to employ to hold onto power.
(c) He saw Bolshevism to be a threat to liberal progressivism in Western nations.
(d) He was fascinated by the tenants of Soviet Communism.

3. What decision did Secretary of State Edward Stettinius make that Isaacson claimed frustrated Harriman?
(a) Stettinius ordered Harriman's replacement as Ambassador to Russia.
(b) Stettinius began direct negotiations with Stalin.
(c) Stettinius began the process of cutting Russia out of any post-war decsions.
(d) Stettinius ordered Harriman to stay in Russia during the aftermath of Roosevelt's death.

4. What did Winston Churchill recommend as a solution to the challenge of growing Soviet Power?
(a) Forming NATO .
(b) An Anglo-American alliance.
(c) Improving working conditions to prevent labor upheavals.
(d) Economic warfare.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Isaacson report to be the U.S. ambassador to Russia immediately after WWII?

2. How does Isaacson claim President Truman planned to fight for support for the Marshall Plan in Congress?

3. What does Isaacson report to be the warning the Allied powers gave to the Japanese regarding the dropping of the atomic bomb?

4. After Roosevelt and Churchill made their agreement, what became the responsibility of Averell Harriman?

5. What does Isaacson report to be Dean Acheson's view of Congress' involvement in presidential foreign policy decisions regarding Vietnam?

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