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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Isaacson claim President Truman planned to fight for support for the Marshall Plan in Congress?
(a) By vetoing every spending bill until the plan was accepted in Congress.
(b) By calling for an emergency session of Congress and winning support for an "interim aid" bill.
(c) By advising Democrat congressmen to amend planks of the plan to popular legislation so it would eventually get passed out of the notice of political opponents.
(d) By campaigning across the country to rally popular support for the effort.

2. What was a personal factor that made the "Six Wise Men" unpopular to the general public, according to Isaacson?
(a) The obvious destruction their agenda had on the American economic system.
(b) Their connections to international banks and Wall Street.
(c) Their support of Algier Hiss who was found to be a Communist spy.
(d) Their roles in the firing of Douglas MacArthur.

3. What does Isaacson report that John McCloy called, "Something that is worse than anything probably that ever happened in the world"?
(a) The death of Franklin Roosevelt.
(b) The devastation caused to Germany from WWII.
(c) The rift that was coming between the Soviet Union and the United States.
(d) The dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima.

4. How did the Pentagon recommend the government should respond to the Soviet Union's possession of nuclear weapons, according to Isaacson?
(a) The Pentagon recommended a national campaign to inform citizens of the need for increased military spending to keep the communist threat at bay.
(b) The Pentagon recommended increased presence and support for conventional war to avoid a nuclear confrontation.
(c) The Pentagon recommended increased budgets for all possible strategies so the country could be kept safe from communist aggression.
(d) The Pentagon recommended an increase in A-bomb production.

5. How did Isaacson claim Acheson described the division of the world between the United States and the Soviet Union during the crisis facing Greece and Turkey?
(a) "...an unbridgeable ideological chasm."
(b) "...a test of free will against coercion."
(c) "...a struggle between totalitarianism and democracy."
(d) "...a contest between freedom and slavery."

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Isaacson claim Joseph Stalin's temperament changed between Harriman's first and second meetings?

2. Who does Isaacson report to be the first of the "Six Wise Men" whom Kennedy sought out for advice after his election to the presidency in 1960?

3. What concern does Isaacson claim motivated Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson to encourage America's financial support for Greece?

4. What role did Frank Wisner play in Kennan's plans for confronting Soviet expansionism?

5. When had Dean Acheson worked with Secretary of State George Marshall, prior to Marshall's appointment to the State Department, according to Isaacson?

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