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Teaching DBQ: The End of The Cold War

DBQ: The End of The Cold War

Citations: Document 1: Chernyaev, Anatoly. The Diary of Anatoly Chernyaev, Assistant to the President of the USSR. <https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB220/Chernyaev_1986.pdf>. Document 2: “Soviet Union: Account of Gorbachev's visit to the UK by K. A. Bishop, interpreter.” The Margaret Thatcher Foundation. <https://cb786b42ab2de72f5694-c7a3803ab0f7212d059698df03ade453.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/850103%20Bishop%20%281394-52%29.pdf>. Document 3: The White House Office of Management and Budget, Table 3.2 Outlays by Function and Subfunction: 1962—2026. <https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/historical-tables/>. Document 4: Gorbachev, Mikhail. “A President Who Listened.” The New York Times, 7

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