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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. When and where was the first atomic bomb used on Japan?
(a) August 7, 1945 on Nagasaki.
(b) August 6, 1945 on Hiroshima.
(c) August 7, 1945 on Hiroshima.
(d) August 6, 1945 on Tokyo.

2. How did communist cells throughout Europe respond to the Marshall Plan?
(a) They began a program of counterfeiting currencies to cause an inflationary cycle.
(b) They started programs of social support for European laborers to win political support for their agendas.
(c) They would attempt to disrupt governments and try to bring them down.
(d) They posed as businesses that received funds that were then put into programs to promote communism.

3. What office did President-Elect Kennedy offer to the first of the "Six Wise Men" whose counsel he sought?
(a) Secretary of State.
(b) Ambassador to Russia.
(c) Ambassador to NATO.
(d) Chief of Staff.

4. What was the organization that eventually replaced the Office of Strategic Services, according to Isaacson?
(a) The Federal Bureau of Investigation.
(b) The Secret Service.
(c) The Office of Homeland Security.
(d) The Central Intelligence Agency.

5. Why did President Eisenhower relieve Bob Lovett from the Defense Department, according to Isaacson?
(a) Because Lovett was considered untrustworthy based upon his relationship with Alger Hiss.
(b) Because Lovett was found leaking policy decisions to his Democrat friends outside the administration.
(c) Because Lovett was a Democrat and Republicans demanded party loyalty while they had control of Congress.
(d) Because the Eisenhower Administration planned to cut spending on conventional forces and rely totally on nuclear weapons for defense.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Isaacson report to have offered proposals that the United States develop an intelligence-gathering system?

2. Why does Isaacson suggest Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union and Mao Tse Tung of China gave support to North Korea's invasion of South Korea?

3. What event at the end of 1967 does Isaacson suggest influenced the Johnson Administration that America had to withdraw from Vietnam?

4. 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?

5. What does Isaacson claim to be Dean Acheson's views on Vietnam?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Why did the Truman Administration consider making an atomic arms control "covenant" with the Soviet Union, according to Isaacson?

4. How many coups were conducted in Vietnam in less than a year between 1963 and 1964, according to Isaacson?

5. What did Isaacson identify as George Kennan's recommended next phase for dealing with communist expansionism after he felt that his plan for containment was working?

6. What organization did John McCloy help to form that became the precursor to the European Common Market, according to Isaacson?

7. Why did Truman's most trusted foreign advisers, including Robert Lovett, George Kennan, Chip Bohlen, and Dean Acheson, oppose the formation of a Jewish State in Palestine, according to Isaacson?

8. What was the focus of George Kennan's "Long Telegram" according to Isaacson?

9. What scandal does Isaacson report to have come to the Truman Administration's state department in January 1950?

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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