DBQ

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DBQ- The word DBQ is a word you will hear very often in an APUSH class. It stands for the Document Based Question. Through your school year you will practice writing these essays in class. DBQ's will start off by having a prompt. The prompt will ask you to take a position on the particular question it is asking and then ask you to support your side. Along w/ the prompt it gives about 8 primary source documents to help you support the prompt. These documents might be pictures or short excerpts from speeches, diary's etc. Now you have to write an essay using the documents and your own outside info. The DBQ appears on the AP test in May, so it is essential for DBQ practise through the school year.
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Here is a DBQ that I made during my 2000-2001 school year. It is about the Korean war.

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	The Document-Based Question- By Ben Isenberg UNITED STATES HISTORY SECTION II Part A (Suggested writing time---45 minutes) Percent of Section II score --- 45 Directions: The following question requires you to construct a coherent essay that integrates your interpretation of Documents A-J and cite your knowledge of the period referred to in the question. High score will be earned only by essays that both cite key pieces of evidence from the documents and draw on outside knowledge of the period. 1. To what extent did the Korean War affect the US; economically, socially, politically as well as Foreign relations during the time period of 1950�s. Use the documents and your knowledge of the history of the 1950�s to construct your response. __________________________________________________________________________________ Document A Source: Truman�s Statement on the Korean War June 27, 1950. The attack upon Korea makes it plain beyond all doubt that Communism has passed beyond the use of subversion to conquer independent nations and will now use armed invasions and war. It has defied the orders of the Security Council of the United Nations issued to preserve international peace and security. In these circumstances the occupation of Formosa by Communist forces would be a direct threat to the security to the Pacific area and to the United States forces performing there lawful and necessary functions in that area. According I have ordered the Seventh Fleet to prevent any attack on Formosa. As a corollary I am calling upon the Chinese Government to cease all air and sea operations against the main land. The Seventh Fleet will see that this is done. The determination of the future status of Formosa must await the restoration of security of the Pacific, a peace settlement with Japan, or consideration by the United Nations. Document B Source: Bulletin, April 16, 1951, pp 603-605. Harry S. Truman: Korea and the Policy of Containment. I want to talk plainly to you tonight about what we are doing in Korea and about our policy in the Far East. In the simplest terms, what are we doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war. I think most people in this country recognized that fact last June. And they warmly supported the decision of the government to help the Republic of Korea against the Communist agressors. Now, many persons, even some who applauded our decision to defend Korea, have forgotten the basic reason for action. It is right for us to be in Korea. It was last June. It is right today. I want to remind you why this is true. Document C Source: Statement by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, July 4,1950, The events now taking place in Korea broke out on June 25 as the result of a provocative attack by the troops of the South Korean authorities on the frontier areas of the Korean People's Democratic Republic. This attack was the outcome of a premeditated plan. One month before the present developments in Korea, on May 19, 1950, Mr. Johnson, chief American administrator of aid to Korea, told the American Congress House of Representatives' Appropriations Committee that 100,000 officers and men of the South Korean Army, equipped with American weapons and trained by the American Military Mission, bad completed their preparations and could begin war at any time. It is known that only a few days before the Korean events, the United States Defense Secretary, Mr. Johnson, the Chief of the General Staff of the United States Armed Forces, General Bradley, and the State Department adviser, Mr. Dulles, arrived in Japan and had special conferences with General MacArthur, and that afterwards Mr. Dulles visited South Korea and went to frontier areas on the 38th Parallel. Document D Source: Soviet News, No. 2393 (July 5, 1950), pp. 1-2. The United States Government tries to justify armed intervention against Korea by alleging that it was undertaken on the authorization of the Security Council. The falsity of such an allegation strikes the eye. What really happened? It is known that the United States Government had started armed intervention in Korea before the Security Council was summoned to meet on June 27, without taking into consideration what decision the Security Council might take. Thus the United States Government confronted the United Nations Organization with a fait accompli, with a violation of peace.� �The illegal resolution of June 27, adopted by the Security Council under pressure from the United States Government, shows that the Security Council is acting, not as a body which is charged with the main responsibility for the maintenance of peace, but as a tool utilized by the ruling circles of the United States for unleashing war. This resolution of the Security Council constitutes a hostile act against peace. If the Security Council valued the cause of peace, it should have attempted to reconcile the fighting sides in Korea before it adopted such a scandalous resolution. Only the Security Council and the United Nations Secretary-General could have done this. However, they did not make such an attempt, evidently knowing that such peaceful action contradicts the aggressors� plans. Document E Source: New York Times, October 25, 1952. Dwight D. Eisenhower: I Shall Go to War In this anxious autumn for America, one fact looms above all other in our people�s mind. One Tragedy challenges all men dedicated to the work of peace. One Word shouts denial to those who foolishly pretend that ours is not nation at war. This fact, this tragedy, this word is: Korea. A small country, Korea has been, for more that two years, the battleground for the costliest foreign war our nation has fought, excepting the two world wars. It has been the burial ground for 20,000 American dead. It has been another historic field of honor for the valor and skill and tenacity of American soldiers. All these things it has been � and yet one thing more. It has been a symbol � of the foreign policy of our nation. It has been a sign � a warning sign � of the way administration has conducted our world affairs. It has been a measure � a damning measure � of the quality of leadership we have been given. Document F Source: TIME � Time capsule/1950 pg. 208. The Bears of War/Wider Ripples. July 10/24 1950 In the Communist Credo, Wall Street provokes war because it is good for business. In the Wall Street credo, war is bad for business and for the stock market. Last week, the credo of Wall Street once more proved true. In first day�s trading after the Korean fighting began, the Dow-Jones industrial average tumbled 10 points. Then came the news that President Truman had ordered U.S. intervention in Korea, and a huge wave of selling swamped the market. Big and little traders, amateurs and professionals scrambled to unload. The market lost in one week all the progress it had made in five months. An estimated $8 Billion in paper values had been wiped out. The market had cracked because investors knew that business, under wartime excess-profits taxes, could not maintain its current peacetime profits. Like ripples from a pebble dropped in water, the war�s effects last week spread in ever widening circles through the U.S. economy, stirring a mild backwash of inflation. Consumers were doing little to help keep prices down; their growing rush to stock up on nylons, tires, sugar and anything else they felt like hoarding was creating shortages where none existed. In Kansas City, when department stores hiked the price of nylons from $1.35 to $2 a pair, the crush to buy grew even bigger. Document G Source: The �Washington post�, �Cleveland Plain Dealer�. (picture) Document H Source: Record, 82 Cong., 1 sess,. Pp. 4123-4125. Douglas MacArthur: Farewell address to Congress Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, and the distinguished members of the Congress: I stand on this rostrum with great pride � humility in the wake of those great American Architects of our history who have stood here before me, pride in the reflection that this forum of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet derived. Here are centered the hopes, and aspirations, and faith of the entire human race. I do not stand here as advocate for any partisan cause, for the issues are fundamental and reach quite beyond the realm of partisan consideration. They must re-solve on the highest plane of national interest if our course is so to prove sound and our future protected. I trust, therefore that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the consideration viewpoint of a fellow American. I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life with but one purpose in mind � to serve my country. Document I Source: Bulletin, July 3 1950,p. 5 Harry S. Truman: United Nations Police Action in Korea. In Korea, the government forces, which were armed to prevent border raids and to preserve internal security, were attacked by invading forces, form North Korea. The Security Council of the United Nations called upon the invading troops to cease hostilities and to withdraw to the 38th parallel. This they have not done, but, on the contrary have pressed the attack. The Security Council called upon all members of the United Nations to render every assistance to the United Nations in the excursion of this revolution. In these circumstances, I have ordered United States air and sea forces to give the Korean government troops cover and support. Document J Source: Bettmann, Newsphotos. Korean War 1951. Stand or Die