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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the only meeting in history of Truman and MacArthur take place?
(a) Potsdam
(b) New Mexico
(c) Wake Island
(d) Washington DC

2. How many people did Oppenheimer estimate the bomb would kill?
(a) 200,000
(b) Two million
(c) None
(d) 20,000

3. Which country was able to assemble an atomic bomb after the USA?
(a) France
(b) China
(c) Soviet Union
(d) Israel

4. Whose appointment to Truman's cabinet made a positive and calming effect?
(a) Charlie Ross
(b) George Marshall
(c) Jimmy Brynes
(d) Henry Wallace

5. How much monthly income did Truman have after leaving the office of president?
(a) $112.56 per month
(b) $50,000
(c) $200
(d) $10,000 per month

6. What was Truman's primary goal of the Potsdam Conference?
(a) To tell the other countries about the atom bomb
(b) To see Europe for free
(c) To find an excuse to use the atom bomb
(d) To get Stalin to commit to entering the war against Japan

7. How old was Truman when he passed away?
(a) 35
(b) 88
(c) 103
(d) 55

8. Who were "The Big Three" of the Potsdam conference?
(a) Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin
(b) Truman, Churchill and Stalin
(c) Gorbachev, Bush and Truman
(d) Truman, DeGaulle and Patton

9. When the U.S. and South Korean Army pushes the North Korean/Chinese back to the 38th parallel, what decision is made about the next step?
(a) To evacuate all troops from Korea
(b) To hold the line there
(c) To proceed into North Korea.
(d) To proceed into China

10. What is Adlai Stevenson's position when he runs for President?
(a) Secretary of War
(b) Governor of Illinois
(c) Private Citizen
(d) Senator from New Mexico

11. When dividing up Germany, what geographical descriptions did the Potsdam Conference use?
(a) Magellan's original docments
(b) The conquered lands of Germany
(c) The Germany of 1937
(d) Hitler's plan for domination

12. Why doesn't the military deploy more divisions in North Korea?
(a) The Allies won't allow it
(b) Without depleting the European military presence, there are no more divisions.
(c) Truman does not think it is necessary
(d) MacArthur refuses to allow it

13. Which country chose not to participate in the Marshall Plan and thereby caused several more countries in that bloc to pull out?
(a) Germany
(b) Japan
(c) Soviet Union
(d) China

14. What geographical designation separated South Korea from North Korea?
(a) The Alps
(b) The Yang River
(c) The 41st parallel
(d) 38th Parallel

15. How did the leaders entertain each other in the evenings of the conference?
(a) Watching football on televsion
(b) Listening to baseball games on the radio
(c) Dancing with the town women
(d) Dinners and musical entertainment

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do Truman's supporters and staff encourage him to fire as a result of Fulbright's Senate committee report?

2. What was the Turnip Congress? .

3. How did Truman's personal staff feel about him?

4. What was a whistle-stop?

5. How many people did the bomb actually kill in Hiroshima?

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