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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Isaacson report communist North Korea invaded South Korea?
(a) June 6, 1949.
(b) June 24, 1950.
(c) June 25, 1959.
(d) June 6, 1944.

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

3. What does Isaacson claim to be the goal of the "Wise Men"?
(a) To rebuild Europe after WWII.
(b) To expand the authority of the Federal Reserve Bank over the monetary policy.
(c) To limit the spread of Soviet Communism.
(d) To scale government back to the limits of the Constitution.

4. What does Isaacson report a member of the Nixon Administration claimed to be Nixon's views of the old foreign policy establishment?
(a) Nixon was "ambivalent" to it.
(b) Nixon both "revered and despised" it.
(c) Nixon was "suspicious and distrusting" of it.
(d) Nixon "respected and sought after" it.

5. What political movement did Bohlen defend to his classmates?
(a) Labor Unionists.
(b) Cobdenite free traders.
(c) Russia's Bolshevik Revolution.
(d) Corporate fascism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the Supreme Court Justice for whom Dean Acheson clerked?

2. According to Isaacson, who was the President of the United States who thought Russia could be an ally after WWII?

3. What does Isaacson suggest to be the result of George Kennan's "Long Telegram"?

4. What does Isaacson claim to be Bohlen's view of Bolshevism?

5. What was a personal factor that made the "Six Wise Men" unpopular to the general public, according to Isaacson?

(see the answer key)

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