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)

An Anglo-American alliance.

Forming NATO .

Improving working conditions to prevent labor upheavals.

Economic warfare.

2.

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 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.

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

3.

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

President Truman.

General Douglas MacArthur.

Dean Acheson.

The U.S. Congress.

4.

Who wrote the top-secret "recommendations for the use of nuclear weapons"? (from Chapters 9-10)

Harry Truman.

Douglas MacArthur.

Colonel Paul Tibbets.

J. Robert Oppenheimer.

5.

How does Isaacson claim President Truman planned to fight for support for the Marshall Plan in Congress? (from Chapters 13-14)

By calling for an emergency session of Congress and winning support for an "interim aid" bill.

By campaigning across the country to rally popular support for the effort.

By vetoing every spending bill until the plan was accepted in Congress.

By advising Democrat congressmen to amend planks of the plan to popular legislation so it would eventually get passed out of the notice of political opponents.

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