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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 report to be the warning the Allied powers gave to the Japanese regarding the dropping of the atomic bomb?
(a) Ads placed in Japanese newspapers warning of coming destruction.
(b) Communiques made to Japanese leaders through their various channels of communication.
(c) Radio interruptions of Japanese airwaves that warned the Japanese of America's possession of, "a weapon of mass destruction."
(d) A vague clue in the Potsdam proclamation describing "immeasurably greater" powers and that, "The alternative for Japan is prompt and utter destruction."

2. Where does Isaacson indicate two crises confronted the Kennedy Adminstration in 1961?
(a) Iran and Israel.
(b) Vietnam and Czechoslovakia.
(c) Peking and Moscow.
(d) Laos and Berlin.

3. For what purpose had Robert Lovett's father been grooming him and Averell Harriman since their graduation from college, according to Isaacson?
(a) To move into foreign service for the government.
(b) To become new masters of the emerging high finance sector of the economy.
(c) To help him run his investment banks.
(d) To help him run the Union Pacific railway empire.

4. What does Isaacson report to be the entry in the Enola Gay log book by co-pilot Robert Lewis after the explosion of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima?
(a) "My God. What have we done?"
(b) "Target visually bombed with good results."
(c) "Is this all it's cracked up to be?"
(d) "This thing is over."

5. What was the document that Isaacson claims to be the blueprint for national security policy through the 1960's?
(a) The "Long Telegram."
(b) The Pumpkin Papers.
(c) NSC-68.
(d) The Acheson memo.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Isaacson report that Averell Harriman's support for the successful presidential candidacy of Franklin Roosevelt was rewarded in 1932?

2. What does Isaacson claim to be the purpose of the club that Bohlen joined?

3. What does Isaacson say caused the crack up of the foreign policy establishment?

4. What was the only concession the Japanese requested for its surrender to end WWII, according to Isaacson?

5. After Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president in 1952, who does Isaacson state became Secretary of State?

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