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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did John McCloy come into contact with Averell Harriman and Robert Lovett?
(a) While he was directing a law office in Paris.
(b) As a student at Harvard Law School.
(c) Through the law firm where John McCloy was employed.
(d) As an advisor with the War Department.

2. How does Isaacson report that Clark Clifford understood the rivalry between the U.S. and the Soviet Union had to be framed to make the general public support confronting the Communists?
(a) Clifford understood the rivalry had, "...to be framed as a personal cause of free American talent overcoming international slavery."
(b) Clifford understood the rivalry had, "...to be framed as a contest between the forces of darkness and light."
(c) Clifford understood the rivalry had, "...to be framed as fearfully as possible to cajole the general public to put unquestioning support for the wisdom of its government."
(d) Clifford understood the rivalry had, "...to be framed as a potential threat to the freedom and security of every individual in the country."

3. What does Isaacson claim to be the purpose of the club that Bohlen joined?
(a) To train underclassmen on their place on campus.
(b) It was called a "waiting" club where members waited to be asked to join a more prestigious club.
(c) It was a "final club" for members who would join no others after coming into it.
(d) To serve as a place at which underclassmen could play rowdy poker games.

4. How did Isaacson claim Acheson described the division of the world between the United States and the Soviet Union during the crisis facing Greece and Turkey?
(a) "...a test of free will against coercion."
(b) "...a struggle between totalitarianism and democracy."
(c) "...a contest between freedom and slavery."
(d) "...an unbridgeable ideological chasm."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What two post-secondary schools does Isaacson report George Kennan attended?

2. What does Isaacson suggest was a practical challenge that Truman faced when he began his presidency?

3. What does Isaacson claim to be George Kennan's biggest concern regarding Soviet Communism?

4. When had Dean Acheson worked with Secretary of State George Marshall, prior to Marshall's appointment to the State Department, according to Isaacson?

5. What State Department official does Isaacson report to have been determined to bring the United States into a "Western Union" military alliance?

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