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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What State Department official does Isaacson report to have been determined to bring the United States into a "Western Union" military alliance?
(a) Donald Maclean.
(b) Theodore Achilles.
(c) Robert Lovett.
(d) John Hickerson.

2. Why does Isaacson suggest Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union and Mao Tse Tung of China gave support to North Korea's invasion of South Korea?
(a) They hoped that the U.S. would consider the conflict to be a local affair.
(b) They hoped to show the superiority of communism over democracy.
(c) They hoped that the U.S. would put itself in financial turmoil by singly funding what appeared to be a long war.
(d) They hoped that victory in Korea would begin the "Domino Theory" of communist world-wide revolution.

3. According to Isaacson, what event took place between Harriman and the person with whom he was sharing responsibility that foreshadowed the role of the two countries they represented in their places in Western leadership?
(a) Harriman and John Lovett developed plans for deciding who would get Allied war support without input from Britain.
(b) Harriman and John McCloy developed Allied policy positions without referring to the Soviets.
(c) Harriman and Beaverbrook had an animated clash during which Harriman insisted that England and the U.S. would determine jointly the distribution of war resources, rather than England alone.
(d) Harriman had a confrontational argument with Leon Trotsky regarding financial aid.

4. What does Isaacson report Vice President Harry Truman was doing when news of President Roosevelt's death was first leaked?
(a) Truman was having dinner with his family as was his custom at that time of the day.
(b) Truman was in Sam Rayburn's hideaway in the Capitol Building playing cards.
(c) Truman was in the Vice President's office adjacent to the Senate floor preparing to go home for the evening.
(d) Truman was in a foreign policy briefing with the Council of Foreign Relations.

5. What decision did Harriman influence Stalin to make, according to Isaacson, to get around the decision of Secretary Stettinius?
(a) To send Vyacheslav Molotov to the grand opening of the United Nations so Harriman could accompany him on the trip.
(b) He used his connections in the Kremlin to navigate some of Stettinius's negotiations.
(c) He advised Stalin to negotiate directly with Churchill to counter Stettinius' efforts.
(d) He influenced Stalin to reject the replacement Stettinius planned to send.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Isaacson report to be a weakness Bohlen exhibited in the execution of his profession?

2. What quality of Truman's does Isaacson claim was welcomed by the liaison between the State Department and the White House ?

3. Which of the "Wise Men" does Isaacson report to be the son of a wealthy railway tycoon?

4. What does Isaacson claim to have been America's foreign policy following WWI?

5. According to Isaacson, who was the President of the United States who thought Russia could be an ally after WWII?

(see the answer key)

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