1. DBQ Reminders Things I’m tired of telling you
Thesis Paragraphs
You MUST have contextualization/relevant background in your thesis paragraph.
Context should be used to set-up the topic – For a question on the Cold War, discuss the end of World War II and relationship between the U.S. and the Soviet Union; for Civil Rights Movement, talk about the state of African Americans at the end of World War II
Don’t use a document in the thesis paragraph!
Use the TAP + R formula for your thesis – Take a position and offer a roadmap (3 parts).
Body Paragraphs
Begin each paragraph with a topic sentence presenting your argument.
Include more than one document in a body paragraph!
Be explicit when HIPP-ing. The intended audience was…
Cite the documents (Doc 6).
Include outside information to avoid writing an essay about documents.
This does not have to be removed from a discussion of the documents, you can incorporate it into this discussion
Conclusion/Synthesis
Stop using random synthesis points! If you are talking about foreign policy  Washington’s Farewell Address!
Use the synthesis formula
Thing A and Thing B are similar because C. Thing A description leading to C. Thing B description leading to C.
You must have an explanation to earn the point

2. Other things to remember…
Pay attention to dates, information from outside the time frame of the question cannot be used as plausible or extended analysis.
Define outside examples – Mentioning people and events is not enough
Discussion of documents has to be more than extended analysis. Before writing about the purpose of a given document, provide a sentence that tells the reader what the document tells you.
Quoting or using phrases from the document is not effective, use your own voice.
Start your discussion of the documents with “According to Martin Luther King….”
Organize documents in a meaningful way – Do not merely present them in the order in which they appear
Always connect evidence back to your thesis
In order to earn extended analysis, you have to do more than describe what you see or read, you must provide additional insight (EXTEND) – You cannot use information from the source line for extended analysis.
Be wise when choosing how to extend the analysis of documents, sometimes the one you want to choose might not be the best choice:
“The American people” or “the government” will not work for intended audience, these are too broad
“Novikov was biased because he was from the Soviet Union, so his point of view was anti-American” is too simple for POV

3. Outside Information for Causes of the Cold War: DBQ Paragraph
The question does not provide a date range, so anything Cold War related can be used:
Yalta Conference (1945)
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Marshall Plan (1948)
Berlin Airlift (1948)
Creation of NATO (1949)
Chinese Civil War (1949)
Soviet nuclear bomb test (1949)
Korean War ( )
Operation Ajax (1953)
Operation Success (1954)
U2 Crisis (1959)
Bay of Pigs (1961)
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
Vietnam War ( )
Soviet-Afghan War ( )