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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the only concession the Japanese requested for its surrender to end WWII, according to Isaacson?
(a) That their American occupiers limit their personal interaction with Japanese citizens.
(b) That Japan could keep its emperor.
(c) That Russia not be allowed to occupy the island.
(d) That Japanese Americans kept in detention camps be allowed to repatriate with their homeland.

2. To whom did President Kennedy look in an attempt to peacefully settle the conflicts in Laos?
(a) Dean Acheson.
(b) Robert Lovett.
(c) Averell Harriman.
(d) George Kennan.

3. After the atomic bombs had been detonated in Japan, what does Isaacson indicate to be the next challenge for the government in the post-war era?
(a) Restoring Europe's economy.
(b) Preserving Germany's industrial capacity.
(c) Finding work for all the veterans.
(d) Taking steps to control atomic weapons.

4. Who does Isaacson claim Dean Acheson supported for the 1960 Democrat Presidential Nomination?
(a) Hubert H. Humphrey.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(d) Stuart Symington.

5. Who were two of the "Six Wise Men" that Isaacson reported had withdrawn their support for the war in Vietnam by the summer of 1967?
(a) George Kennan and Charles Bohlen.
(b) John McCloy and Robert Lovett.
(c) John McCloy and Dean Acheson.
(d) Robert Lovett and Averell Harriman.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did George Kennan contribute to Acheson's effort to win support for Greece and Turkey, according to Isaacson?

2. What does Isaacson define as the main political challenge to the Truman Administration encouraging Congress to support financial aid to Greece and Turkey?

3. Which of the "Six Wise Men" was chosen by President Johnson to assume authority over all diplomatic efforts to end the war in Vietnam according to Isaacson?

4. What was the document that Isaacson claims to be the blueprint for national security policy through the 1960's?

5. What does Isaacson record came of Kennan's concern regarding confronting Soviet Communism?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Isaacson report to be the concern of Robert Lovett regarding the operations of the CIA under President Eisenhower?

2. What does Isaacson claim Clark Clifford wrote in a campaign strategy memo regarding the affect of the Soviet clampdown on Czechoslovakia on the reelection chances of President Truman?

3. What does Isaacson claim made President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, attractive to the eastern foreign policy Establishment?

4. What affect did the Soviet aggression in Czechoslovakia have on Truman's effort to win Congressional approval of the Marshall Plan, according to Isaacson?

5. What does Isaacson report to have been General Douglas MacArthur's proposal to stop the flow of Chinese Soldiers into the war between North and South Korea?

6. Who did President Kennedy choose to act as his chief negotiator at the International Control Commission talks on Laos, according to Isaacson?

7. What does Isaacson claim to be the North Vietnamese offensive that made the Johnson Administration realize America needed to get out of the Vietnam War?

8. To what event did President Truman compare the Soviet clampdown on Czechoslavakia in 1948, according to Isaacson?

9. What scandal does Isaacson report to have come to the Truman Administration's state department in January 1950?

10. How many coups were conducted in Vietnam in less than a year between 1963 and 1964, according to Isaacson?

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