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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Isaacson claim MacArthur's plans were blocked?
(a) Because the bombing of the bridges might provoke the Chinese to take harsher actions.
(b) Because the foreign policy elite feared losing influence if a military success ended the conflict in Korea.
(c) Because the Administration feared communist aggression within the continental United States.
(d) Because the Administration had a strict policy of keeping American soldiers within the boundaries of South Korea.

2. What did Winston Churchill recommend as a solution to the challenge of growing Soviet Power?
(a) Improving working conditions to prevent labor upheavals.
(b) An Anglo-American alliance.
(c) Economic warfare.
(d) Forming NATO .

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

4. What does Isaacson suggest to be the result of George Kennan's "Long Telegram"?
(a) It caused a harmful foreign policy debate within the Truman Administration that led to international paralysis.
(b) It caused his old friend, Dean Acheson to advise him to discuss his ideas with him before he put things on paper.
(c) It formulated the containment theory which was embraced by Washington.
(d) It made Kennan persona non grata to his superiors within the State Department.

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 John McCloy to being an internationalist to being an isolationist.
(c) The conversion of Averell Harriman from a market capitalist to seeing the value of socialism in some systems.
(d) The conversion of Dean Acheson to a hard-line stance on dealing with the Soviets.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Isaacson claim Chip Bohlen became an important American diplomat in Russia?

2. What does Isaacson write of what became of the "Six Wise Men" after Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president in 1952?

3. What did Gen. MacArthur recommend, according to Isaacson, to stem the flow of Chinese soldiers into North Korea?

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 Bohlen's view of Bolshevism?

(see the answer key)

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