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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. What was the only concession the Japanese requested for its surrender to end WWII, according to Isaacson?
(a) That their American occupiers limit their personal interaction with Japanese citizens.
(b) That Russia not be allowed to occupy the island.
(c) That Japan could keep its emperor.
(d) That Japanese Americans kept in detention camps be allowed to repatriate with their homeland.

2. What does Isaacson suggest to be one of the largest factors in America's rise to prominence after WWII?
(a) America's ability to be self-sufficient.
(b) Britain's inability to support its empire.
(c) America's size and population relative to most other countries.
(d) America's ability to convert consumer production to war production.

3. When does Isaacson report communist North Korea invaded South Korea?
(a) June 24, 1950.
(b) June 6, 1949.
(c) June 6, 1944.
(d) June 25, 1959.

4. What did Gen. MacArthur recommend, according to Isaacson, to stem the flow of Chinese soldiers into North Korea?
(a) Opening relations with China to negotiate a settlement.
(b) Using nuclear weapons to wipe out China and Russia.
(c) Avoiding a mainland war with the communists.
(d) Bombing out bridges over the Yalu River.

5. What does Isaacson cite as "...perhaps the most dramatic and significant (conversion) of any postwar American statesman"?
(a) The conversion of Harry Truman from being a non-interventionist to being an internationalist.
(b) The conversion of Averell Harriman from a market capitalist to seeing the value of socialism in some systems.
(c) The conversion of Dean Acheson to a hard-line stance on dealing with the Soviets.
(d) The conversion of John McCloy to being an internationalist to being an isolationist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the major contributing factor to causing the fate of the "Six Wise Men" after the election of Eisenhower?

2. What State Department official does Isaacson report to have been determined to bring the United States into a "Western Union" military alliance?

3. What does Isaacson report to be the entry in the Enola Gay log book by co-pilot Robert Lewis after the explosion of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima?

4. What does Isaacson suggest to be the result of George Kennan's "Long Telegram"?

5. Which two of the "Six Wise Men" does Isaacson report were called to brief the Kennedy Administration on the two crises that faced them?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Isaacson report to be the entry into the logbook of the Enola Gay to record the dropping of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima?

2. How does Isaacson report England was affected by the end of WWII?

3. What Southeast Asian country did President Eisenhower tell President-Elect Kennedy was the "key" to keeping communism from overtaking all of Southeast Asia according to Isaacson?

4. How does Isaacson explain the changes in the military policy of the Truman Administration once it became clear the Soviet Union had nuclear weapons?

5. What does Isaacson claim Winston Churchill offered as a suggestion for a solution to Soviet expansionism in his "Iron Curtain" speech in Missouri?

6. Why does Isaacson suggest that Dean Acheson recommended Dean Rusk to President-Elect Kennedy for Secretary of State?

7. What was the suggestion that Dean Acheson made regarding the future of freedom if Turkey and Greece fell into the influence of Soviet Communism, according to Isaacson?

8. What does Isaacson claim made President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, attractive to the eastern foreign policy Establishment?

9. What does Isaacson claim to be Stalin's reaction to the Marshall Plan?

10. What does Isaacson claim to be the North Vietnamese offensive that made the Johnson Administration realize America needed to get out of the Vietnam War?

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