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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 define as the main political challenge to the Truman Administration encouraging Congress to support financial aid to Greece and Turkey?
(a) Harry Truman had become politically unpopular since the Democrats lost their congressional majority during the 1946 mid-term elections.
(b) Americans had become weary of international interventions in the aftermath of WWII.
(c) The elections of 1946 brought popular support to balancing budgets and ending foreign spending.
(d) Congress was more interested in focusing on domestic issues than it was with foreign interventions.

2. What exclusive club did Chip Bohlen join at Harvard according to Isaacson?
(a) Skull and Bones.
(b) The Harvard Lampoon.
(c) Sphinx-Kalumet Club.
(d) The Porcellian.

3. With whom did John McCloy and Robert Lovett serve as advisers to the Secretary of War, according to Isaacson?
(a) Dean Acheson and Averell Harriman.
(b) George Marshall and Erskine Hawkins.
(c) Robert Patterson and Harvey Bundy.
(d) McGeorge Bundy and Henry Stimson.

4. Which of the "Six Wise Men" was chosen by President Johnson to assume authority over all diplomatic efforts to end the war in Vietnam according to Isaacson?
(a) Dean Acheson.
(b) George Kennan
(c) John McCloy.
(d) Averell Harriman.

5. Who was the State Department's Liaison with the White House during the transfer of power from Roosevelt to Truman?
(a) Dean Acheson.
(b) Charles Bohlen.
(c) John McCloy.
(d) George Kennan.

Short Answer Questions

1. When and where was the first atomic bomb used on Japan?

2. Who does Isaacson claim blocked MacArthur's plans for slowing the flow of Chinese soldiers into the Korean War?

3. What office did President-Elect Kennedy offer to the first of the "Six Wise Men" whose counsel he sought?

4. What does Isaacson suggest started becoming a concern to the six "Wise Men" shortly after WWII began?

5. When did Averell Harriman join the most elite club at Yale according to Isaacson?

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