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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Isaacson report to be the U.S. ambassador to Russia immediately after WWII?
(a) Averell Harriman.
(b) George Kennan.
(c) John McCloy.
(d) Robert Lovett.

2. When did Averell Harriman join the most elite club at Yale according to Isaacson?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1914.

3. Who coined the term "Iron Curtain" in a cable to President Truman?
(a) Winston Churchill.
(b) John McCloy.
(c) Henry Stimson.
(d) George Kennan.

4. What does Isaacson suggest started becoming a concern to the six "Wise Men" shortly after WWII began?
(a) "In public...Roosevelt would henceforth proclaim that the Atlantic Charter...was the foundaton of American foreign policy."
(b) "America's stormy relationship with her Soviet Allies."
(c) "Stalin could be blunt, but then so could Harriman."
(d) "Isolationist directing public policy placed America in peril during the early months of the war."

5. Which president does Isaacson report Dean Acheson served as Assistant Secretary of State?
(a) Dwight Eisenhower.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Harry Truman.
(d) Franklin Roosevelt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Isaacson report Vice President Harry Truman was doing when news of President Roosevelt's death was first leaked?

2. Who wrote the top-secret "recommendations for the use of nuclear weapons"?

3. With what investment house did Isaacson claim Averell Harriman merged W.A. Harriman & Co.?

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

5. Isaacson reports which "Wise Man" worked to implement Franklin Roosevelt's Lend Lease program?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which of the "Six Wise Men" does Isaacson indicate attended Harvard Law School?

2. What were the major declarations of the Atlantic Charter, according to Isaacson?

3. What did Isaacson report regarding a meeting between Averell Harriman and Max Beaverbrook that foretold the change in the balance of power between England and the United States?

4. What does Isaacson report that George Kennan believed Marxism offered to Soviet Russian leaders?

5. What does Issacson suggest comes between 20th century isolationism and a utopian dream of a world order based on international law?

6. After WWI, how does Isaacson show Averell Harriman's process of making business deals with Leon Trotsky of Communist Russia?

7. What does Isaacson claim motivated George Kennan to apply for a job with the foreign service?

8. What does Isaacson report to be the difference between George Kennan's approach to training for the foreign service and that of Chip Bohlen?

9. Which of the "Six Wise Men" attended Yale, according to Isaacson?

10. What does Isaacson claim to be the "warning" issued through the Potsdam proclamation by the Allied Powers to Japan regarding the dropping of the atomic bomb?

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