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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the Supreme Court Justice for whom Dean Acheson clerked?
(a) Louis Brandeis.
(b) James Clark McReynolds.
(c) William Howard Taft.
(d) Mahlon Pitney.

2. What does Isaacson claim to have been America's foreign policy following WWI?
(a) Interventionism.
(b) Nation building.
(c) Non-interventionism.
(d) Isolationism.

3. How did George Kennan contribute to Acheson's effort to win support for Greece and Turkey, according to Isaacson?
(a) Kennan lent the cause credibility by showing how doing so would be an application of his popular document of containment.
(b) Kennan took a film crew to make a documentary of the desparation of Greece and Turkey.
(c) Kennan wrote a speech that gave undeniable arguments in support for the cause.
(d) Kennan found a Russian exile to meet with congressmen to detail the plans of the Soviet government for overtaking all of Europe.

4. What does Isaacson claim to the Lovett's and Harriman's most important innovation to the industry for which they were prepared by Judge Lovett?
(a) Developing streamlined diesel locomotives pulling sleek aluminum coaches.
(b) Using airplanes to quickly relay messages to ambassadors in foreign lands.
(c) Establishing radio relay stations to deliver messages to ambassadors in foreign lands.
(d) Using ticker tape to relay changes in stock prices.

5. What does Isaacson suggest started becoming a concern to the six "Wise Men" shortly after WWII began?
(a) "America's stormy relationship with her Soviet Allies."
(b) "Stalin could be blunt, but then so could Harriman."
(c) "Isolationist directing public policy placed America in peril during the early months of the war."
(d) "In public...Roosevelt would henceforth proclaim that the Atlantic Charter...was the foundaton of American foreign policy."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Chip Bohlen grow up, according to Isaacson?

2. What does Isaacson report that members of the Truman Administration suggested caused the political opposition to the Truman Doctrine to confront Soviet Communism wherever it was asserted?

3. What does Isaacson claim to have been the primary purpose of the telegram to President Truman with the warning of Soviet aggression?

4. What does Isaacson report to be the differences between the negotiating styles of Roosevelt and Truman?

5. What did Winston Churchill recommend as a solution to the challenge of growing Soviet Power?

(see the answer key)

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