The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made: Acheson, Bohlen,... Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What did Winston Churchill recommend as a solution to the challenge of growing Soviet Power? (from Chapters 11-12)

Improving working conditions to prevent labor upheavals.

Forming NATO .

Economic warfare.

An Anglo-American alliance.

2.

How does Isaacson suggest that President Kennedy hoped to avoid war in Laos? (from Chapter 20-21)

By calling on the support of allies in the area to come to America's aid for the war that was rapidly developing.

With help from the British in reviving the International Control Commission.

By supporting economic development throughout South East Asia.

Through back channel negotiations with leaders of the Soviet Union.

3.

Who does Isaacson report to have committed the U.S. to active ground war in Korea? (from Chapter 16-17)

General Douglas MacArthur.

Dean Acheson.

The U.S. Congress.

President Truman.

4.

What does Isaacson claim to be the reason that Harriman and Dean Acheson supported making post-war loans to the Soviets? (from Chapter 8)

Both saw the loans as a means of gaining bargaining leverage with the Kremlin.

Both considered loans to be a show of good faith that the U.S. was willing to work with the Soviets in spite of ideological differences.

Both considered that the friendship of the Soviets could be bought.

Both realized that the Soviet economy was unproductive and felt that loans could nudge the Soviets to a market economy.

5.

What does Isaacson say caused the crack up of the foreign policy establishment? (from Chapter 24)

Wars.

Inflation.

Arrogance.

Vietnam.

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