History Syllabus

TERM I

1. Russian Revolution (cont.)
* War Communism
* Lenin to 1924

2. Stalin
* Early years
* Bolshevik Party
* 1917 - 1924
* Power struggles
* Trotsky
* 1929 - 1953
* Collectivisation
* Five Year Plans
* World War II

3. United States of America
* Boom and the 1920s
* Great Depression
* Roosevelt
* New Deal
* Consequences and opposition
* World War II

4. Rise of Totalitarianism
* Versailles Treaty
* Weimar Germany
* Great Depression
* Hitler and the Nazi Party
* Nazi Germany 1933 - 1939

TERM II

1. Rise of Totailarianism (cont.)
* German Foreign Policy
* World War II

2. Cold War
* World War II and aftermath
* Concept of the Cold War
* Cold War 1945 -
* Case studies

3. Africa * World War II and aftermath
* Decolonisation 1945 -
* Case studies
* Impact on South Africa

ASSIGNMENT: Local History (Grade 11)

TERM III

1. South Africa 1934 -1948
* Smuts and Hertzog
* Schism and Fusion
* Coalition
* Opposition

TERM IV

1. South Africa 1948 - 1976
* World War II
* Smuts and the United Party
* National Party
* 1948 elections
* Opposition to N.P.
* A.N.C. and active resistance

2. Revision

GRADE 12 VIDEOS

After Stalin: Sputnik to the Wall
Cold War: 1 - 4
Fall of the Romonoff Dynasty
Making of Glory: Drum
Portrait of Stalin Blood
Soweto: A History
Ten Days that Shook the World
1922 Strikes