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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Soviet Union begin its "clampdown" on Czechoslovakia, according to Isaacson?
(a) December 7, 1947.
(b) March 3, 1948.
(c) June 24, 1950.
(d) February 25, 1948.

2. With whom does Isaacson report Harriman shared responsibility that came to him after the meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill?
(a) Admiral William Standley.
(b) Robert Lovett.
(c) Lord Beaverbrook, Churchill's Minister of Supply.
(d) John McCloy.

3. Who encouraged the United States to rearm and come out of what Isaacson claims to be a period of isolationism following WWI?
(a) Henry Stimson.
(b) Dean Acheson.
(c) Averell Harriman.
(d) John McCloy.

4. Where did Chip Bohlen grow up, according to Isaacson?
(a) Grindstone Island, New York.
(b) Paris.
(c) New York City.
(d) Aiken, South Carolina.

5. Which of the six "Wise Men" does Isaacson report Roosevelt's Secretary of War asked to work on German espionage?
(a) Chip Bohlen.
(b) Robert Lovett.
(c) Averell Harriman.
(d) John McCloy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Isaacson claim Dean Acheson supported for the 1960 Democrat Presidential Nomination?

2. Who does Isaacson report to have committed the U.S. to active ground war in Korea?

3. Where does Isaacson indicate two crises confronted the Kennedy Adminstration in 1961?

4. According to Isaacson, why did did George Kennan oppose the development of more powerful nuclear weapons?

5. Who was the State Department's Liaison with the White House during the transfer of power from Roosevelt to Truman?

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