COLD WAR DBQ. This question is designed to test your ability to work with and understand historical documents.

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1 COLD WAR DBQ Directions: The following question is based on the accompanying Documents 1-8. (The documents have been edited for the purpose of this exercise.) Write your answer on the lined pages of the Section II free-response booklet. This question is designed to test your ability to work with and understand historical documents. Write an essay that: Has a relevant thesis and supports that thesis with evidence from the documents. Uses all of the documents. Analyzes the documents by grouping them in as many appropriate ways as possible. Does not simply summarize the documents individually. Takes into account the sources of the documents and analyzes the authors points of view. Identifies and explains the need for at least one additional type of document. You may refer to relevant historical information not mentioned in the documents. 1. Using the following documents, analyze the political, social, and economic changes that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union Historical Background: The Cold War ( ) ended when the Soviet Union ceased to exist. The Soviet Union collapsed due to multiple internal and external problems that the government could not effectively address.

2 2014 Scoring Guideline Basic Core Points [7] 1. Has acceptable thesis. [1] May state a positive/negative relationship Explicitly stated in the introduction or the specified conclusion of the essay ONE sentence Cannot count as meaning, evidence, or grouping 2. Understands the basic meaning of documents. [1] Address ALL documents Demonstrate basic meaning of all but one Quoting a document without context does not demonstrate understanding! 3. Supports thesis with appropriate evidence from all or all but one document. [2] Specific & accurate evidence drawn from documents 4. Analyzes point of view in at least two documents. [1] Explains why the individual might have this opinion or what feature informs the author s POV Move beyond description by explaining a document s tone, characteristics of the author, intended audience, or how the intended outcome may have influenced the author s opinion Challenge the veracity of the opinion, but beyond stating the author is biased by providing some plausible analysis of how or why Attribution is not sufficient 5. Analyzes documents by grouping them in three ways. [1] 6. Identifies and explains the need for one type of appropriate additional document or sources [1] Identify an appropriate document, source, or voice and explain how or why the document will contribute to an analysis in the grouping 7. Expanded Core (~Excellence~) [+1-2] Has a clear,analytical, and comprehensive thesis Shows careful and insightful analysis of the documents Recognizes historical context of the documents Explains corroboration and links between documents Uses documents persuasively as evidence Analyzes point of view in most or all documents Includes additional groupings Explains why additional types of documents or sources are needed within the essay integrated into a broader analysis Brings in accurate and relevant outside historical context 9 Points Possible

3 Document 1 The Collapse of Communism Winter "I hope this is for real," said Boris Mamecov, a court clerk, at his voting place in south Moscow. "We never had anything like it before-discussions, debates, fighting. Before people dropped a piece of paper in a slot. You couldn't describe it as a choice." Document 2 After Communism by Robert Heilbroner The New Yorker 10 September 1990 The great problem of central planning lies buried in the procedures by which the economy is given its marching orders. This means that the economy "works" because-and only to the extent-the quality, quantity, size, weight, and selling price of every nut, bolt, hinge, beam, tractor, and hydroelectric turbine have been previously determined. At the supreme headquarters, the numbers for gross national product are announced. In considerably lower and dingier offices, the numbers for nuts, bolts, and turbines is calculated. but it is apparent that if the plans for the latter are off, that plans for the former may be impossible to attain. Document 3 Speech by Vlaclav Havel, first democratically elected president of Czechoslovakia 1990 The state, which calls itself a state of workers, is humiliating and exploiting them instead. Our outmoded economy wastes energy, which we have in short supply. the country, which could once be proud of the education of it's people, is spending so little on education that today, in that respect, we rank 72d in the world. We have spoiled our land, rivers, and forests, inherited from our ancestors, and we have, today, the worst environment in the whole of Europe. Adults die here earlier than in the majority of European countries...

4 Document 4 Out of Control by Zbigniew Brzezinski, fmr. National Security Advisor to Pres. Carter And here it could not deliver because it misjudged the nature of human creativity and especially the very nature of the human being. It could not harness the human potential because it crushed the human spirit. The critical connection between creativity and the acquisition of wealth was grossly misunderstood. It severed the umbilical cord between productivity and self-interest. The suppression of private property produced economic lethargy and eventually systemic underperformance. Document 5 Headline from Pravda magazine 27 March 1989 " Millions Vote for Perestroika-A Vote of Confidence for the Policy of Regenerating Soviet Society." Document 6 Speech from The Socialist Idea and Revolutionary Perestroika by Mikhail Gorbachev...At the present complex stage, the interests of the consolidation of society and the concentration of all its sound forces on the accomplishment of the difficult tasks of perestroika prompt the advisability of keeping the one-party system. And in this case, the party will promote the development of opinions in society and the broadening of glasnost in the interests of democracy and the people. In the efforts to renew socialism, the party may not concede the initiative to either populist demagoguery, nationalist or chauvinistic currents or to the spontaneity of group interests. Document 7 Excerpt from The Declaration of the Commonwealth of Independent States Seeking to build democratic law-governed states, the relations between which will develop on the basis of mutual recognition and respect for state sovereignty and sovereign equality, the inalienable right to self-determination, principles of equality and noninterference in internal affairs, the rejection of the use of force, the threat of force and economic and any other methods of pressure, a peaceful settlement of disputes, respect for human rights and freedoms, including the rights of national minorities, a conscientious fulfillment of commitments and other generally recognized principles and standards of international law...cooperation between members of the commonwealth will be carried out in accordance with the principle of equality through coordinating institutions formed on a parity basis and operating in the way established by the agreements between members of the commonwealth, which is neither a state nor a superstate structure...

5 Document 8 Political cartoon from Newsweek Magazine 13 June 1988