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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What concern does Isaacson claim motivated Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson to encourage America's financial support for Greece?
(a) That an economic collapse in Greece would be widely seen as a failure of market systems.
(b) A possible takeover of Greece by communists as a result of a civil war.
(c) That an economic collapse in Greece would expose the weakness of America's "dollar diplomacy."
(d) That an economic collapse in Greece would lead to a general economic collapse throughout Europe.

2. What event at the end of 1967 does Isaacson suggest influenced the Johnson Administration that America had to withdraw from Vietnam?
(a) The Tet Offensive.
(b) Race riots protesting the disproportionate number of Black soldiers stationed in Vietnam compared to their percentage of the population.
(c) Antiwar protests threatening college campuses.
(d) Public opinion polls showing Johnson could not be re-elected if Vietnam was not settled.

3. Why did Dean Acheson believe the U.S. should get involved in the war between North and South Korea, according to Isaacson?
(a) To save the Western Alliance in Europe.
(b) To prove to Stalin and Mao that all of their imperialistic actions would be confronted.
(c) To preserve the doctrine of containment.
(d) To preserve strategic positions in the Far East.

4. How did the U.S. Government consider North Korea's invasion of South Korea, according to Isaacson?
(a) As the beginning of a life or death struggle against international communism.
(b) As a sign that the U.S. had no other choice but to be involved with all the governments of the world to turn back the communist threat.
(c) As a warning sign to world war.
(d) As a sign that the age of interventionism was over.

5. Who encouraged the United States to rearm and come out of what Isaacson claims to be a period of isolationism following WWI?
(a) John McCloy.
(b) Dean Acheson.
(c) Henry Stimson.
(d) Averell Harriman.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Isaacson report that Clark Clifford understood the rivalry between the U.S. and the Soviet Union had to be framed to make the general public support confronting the Communists?

2. Who does Isaacson report that President Truman chose to administer the European Recovery Plan (The Marshall Plan) in Europe?

3. How does Isaacson claim Bohlen distinguished himself in the service of his first assignment?

4. What does Isaacson claim Averell Harriman began to accept of America's role in the world during the 1970's?

5. What does Isaacson claim George Kennan longed for in his later years?

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