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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Isaacson suggest to be one of the largest factors in America's rise to prominence after WWII?
(a) America's size and population relative to most other countries.
(b) Britain's inability to support its empire.
(c) America's ability to convert consumer production to war production.
(d) America's ability to be self-sufficient.

2. What agreement does Isaacson record Roosevelt and Churchill made during their initial meeting after America's entry into WWII?
(a) The Non Aggression Pact.
(b) Lend Lease.
(c) The Atlantic Charter.
(d) NATO.

3. How does Isaacson claim Joseph Stalin's temperament changed between Harriman's first and second meetings?
(a) In the first meeting Stalin was candid and friendly, but in the second meeting he was confrontational, accusing and paranoid.
(b) In the first meeting Stalin was aloof and disinterested, in the second meeting he was eager and cooperative.
(c) In the first meeting Stalin was scheming and evasive, in the second meeting he was congenial and open.
(d) In the first meeting Stalin was panicked and demanding, but in the second meeting Stalin was calm and reasonable.

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 struggle between totalitarianism and democracy."
(b) "...a contest between freedom and slavery."
(c) "...a test of free will against coercion."
(d) "...an unbridgeable ideological chasm."

5. How does Isaacson report that Averell Harriman's support for the successful presidential candidacy of Franklin Roosevelt was rewarded in 1932?
(a) Roosevelt named him the head of the Council on Foreign Relations.
(b) Roosevelt named him the Ambassador to Russia.
(c) Roosevelt named him the Chief Administrative officer of the National Recovery Administration.
(d) Roosevelt named him Secretary of State.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position did the "Wise Man" who implemented the Lend Lease program eventually take in the Roosevelt administration?

2. When did the Soviet Union begin its "clampdown" on Czechoslovakia, according to Isaacson?

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

4. Under which president did Dean Acheson serve in the Attorney General's office?

5. With what investment house did Isaacson claim Averell Harriman merged W.A. Harriman & Co.?

(see the answer key)

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