Grade 12 NSC Matric History - Notes, Past Papers & ATP
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Grade 12 NSC Matric History Topics
Events Leading to the End of the Cold War
Negotiated Settlement and Government of National Unity
South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s
Overview of Civil Society Protests
The Ideas That Influenced Independent African States
The Origins of the Cold War
The End of the Cold War – The Events of 1989
How Has South Africa Chosen to Remember the Past?
The Challenge of Black Consciousness to the Apartheid State
Case Study 1: The US Civil Rights Movement
Case Study 1: Congo and Tanzania – A Comparative Case Study
The Extension of the Cold War – Case Study 1: China
A New World Order
The Crisis of Apartheid in the 1980s
Case Study 2: The Black Power Movement
The Impact of Internal and External Factors on Africa
The Extension of the Cold War – Case Study 2: Vietnam
Africa in the Cold War
Case Study 2: Angola
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