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Teaching DBQ: Cold War Struggles Abroad

DBQ: Cold War Struggles Abroad

Citations: Document 1: Truman, Harry S. “Inaugural Address.” 20 January 1949. Document 2: "File:Cold War Map 1959.png." Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. 23 Apr 2021, 00:56 UTC. 11 May 2021, 18:19 <https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Cold_War_Map_1959.png&oldid=554686992>. Document 3: Khrushchev, N. S. “Report of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to the 20th Party Congress.” Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1956. Document 4: "US and USSR nuclear stockpiles.svg." Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. 2008. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_arms_race#/media/File:US_and_USSR_nuclear_stockpiles.svg>.

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DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE (DOK) LEVELS:

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