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Grade 9 - Term 2: The Nuclear Age and the Cold War

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… weapons reached its height with the outbreak of World War 1 and 2, as well as the Cold War. Tin this case, two of the world’s major superpowers, the … use of nuclear weapons, which was referred to as the Cold War. This lesson will focus on the change in the balance of …

World War I Timeline 1914

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… Updated March 27, 2023 The outbreak of the First World War was precipitated by the assassination of the … Russo-Austrian frontier. 28 July, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia. 29 July, Great Britain warns Germany that it … France orders the mobilisation of troops. Germany declares war on Russia. Italy announces neutrality. Belgium announces …

Grade 9 - Term 1: World War II (1939 - 1945)

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… Published March 20, 2015 Updated August 27, 2019 World War II (1939 to 1945) was the most devastating war in history, accounting for between 50 million to 80 million deaths. What made the war significant was the sheer scale of the conflict and the …

Grade 10 - Topic 6: The South African War and Union

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… Reef in the late 19th century. Study on the South African War from 1899 to 1902 needs to reflect recent research. The … tried to forge a confederation. After the South African War, the second war waged by the British against the Afrikaners, the British …

The Causes of World War I

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… 2019 In the years immediately preceding the First World War all the European countries were facing increased … as the members of the German parliament were called. World War 1 Recruitment Poster. Source: mrheartland.blogspot.com In … over the imposition of Home Rule. The Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905 led to the 1905 Revolution in Russia, …

The impact of the War on Agriculture and Land

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… January 31, 2014 Updated August 27, 2019 During the war agricultural production in South Africa received a major … demand inside the country and a growing export market. The war had reduced the role of foreign competition as … production in Europe was severely disrupted during the war years. The value of South African agricultural exports …

Timeline of the German and Herero, Nama War and Genocide

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… the area are stockpiling weapons with the intent to go to war. It is unclear why Frau Sonnenberg believed this as there … He believes they intend to attack the fort and start a war against the Germans. To this effect Zürn puts the … to believe the Herero and is convinced they are plotting a war. Samuel Maharero later writes in a letter to Governor …

First Anglo Boer War

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… March 21, 2011 Updated October 1, 2020 Causes of the War The First Anglo-Boer is also known as the First Transvaal War of Independence because the conflict arose between the … State. There were several causes of the First Anglo-Boer War. The expansion of the British Empire. Problems within the …

Race and ethnicity in South Africa

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… consisted of Northern Sotho (Bapedi), Southern Sotho (Basotho) and Tswana, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda, as well as … consisted of Northern Sotho (Bapedi), Southern Sotho (Basotho) and Tswana, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda, as well as …

Responses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Formation of the International Socialist League (ISL)

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… Updated August 27, 2019 The out break of the First World War had profound consequences for the development of socialist labour politics in South Africa. Before the war, the Labour Party under Colonel Cresswell was the … in the coming general election of 1915.  The outbreak of war in August 1914, however, caused a serious rift within the …

Grade 12 - The impact of the Cold War in forming the world as it was in the 1960s

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… Published June 1, 2011 Updated May 16, 2019 The Cold War was the period of conflict and competition between the … Union, and their respective allies. From the end of World War II until the early 1990s, world politics was dominated by the rivalry between these two Superpowers. The Cold War spread outside Europe to every region of the world, and …

The World and South Africa when Nelson Mandela was born

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… August 27, 2019 Nelson Mandela was born into a world of war, revolutionary upheaval and a worldwide influenza … In July 1918, when Mandela was born, the First World War was still raging with no end in sight. In January General … Turkish forces in Palestine. America had entered the war on the side of the Allies - Great Britain, France, Russia …

Sources task: The Berlin Wall

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… then answer the questions that follow. Source A "The Cold War was a state of political tension and military rivalry between nations that stops short of full-scale war, especially that which existed between the United States and Soviet Union following World War II." - source: www.answers.com Look at Source A and …

Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948

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… 21, 2011 Updated July 27, 2016 South Africa enters the War General Smuts signing the agreement at the first meeting … eeu Kaapstad: Struik, p.107. In September 1939, World War II broke out. In South Africa, people were divided as to whether or not they should join the war, and if so, on whose side they should fight. Although …

Grade 12 - Topic 4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present

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… anyone who disagreed with their policies. During the Cold War, there was a contest for influence in Africa, between the … than by committing itself to a long and ruinous civil war." - Quote source: www.fwdklerk.org.za Suggested activities and links: " End of the Cold War " at www.schoolhistory.co.uk (provides additional …

Herero Revolt 1904-1907

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… Africa rose up against the German colonisers in a war of rebellion. This war, and the extermination order issued by General Lothar von … recently invented Kodak film to take home mementos of the war By 1904, the tensions in the colony had risen to a peak. …

Eastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878

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… 2012] Until 1750 (29 years before the First Frontier War), migrant farmers rapidly advanced rapidly into the … in 1778 less than a year into the First Frontier War, the Great Fish River became the eastern frontier. It was … Frontier Wars is briefly discussed below: First Frontier War (1779-1781) It is widely believed that the First Frontier …

The History of May Day in South Africa

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… The outbreak of the First World War in August 1914 had profound consequences for the … of socialist labour politics in South Africa. Before the war, the Labour Party under Colonel Cresswell was the … in the coming general election of 1915.  The outbreak of war in August 1914, however, caused a serious rift within the …

The Western Front

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… November 26, 2020 At the outbreak of the First World War, Germany put into operation the Schlieffen Plan . This plan was based on the assumption that in case of a war breaking out, Germany would face a war on both her Western and Eastern borders. To prepare for …

World War I Timeline 1916

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… as it was the last town to fall in the Franco-Prussian War of 1871.  In the ten month battle, one of the longest in the war, both sides suffered almost one million casualties. The … Verdun is considered the bloodiest encounter in the war with the French suffering 540 000 and the Germans 430 000 …

The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946

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… for Power: The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946 4. War Issue In February 1933, the two main white political … brought no unity, either ideological or racial. When war eventually came, the party split into its component parts". When war broke out in Europe, Hertzog summoned the Cabinet and …

The Establishment of the Afrikaner Broederbond in May 1918.

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… found themselves in the period after the First World War. With the end of the war, the boom conditions for South African agriculture came to an end as post-war inflation escalated and banks withdrew credit facilities. …

Responses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The African Peoples Organisation and the Teachers League of South Africa

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… coloured elite came out strongly in support of the British war effort. They shared the same illusions that support for the war would eventually lead to their grievances being taken … were closely aligned, came out in direct support of the war. Many of the members of the TLSA volunteered for service, …

The Battle of Square Hill

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… 23, 2017 Participation as combatants in the First World War was reserved for men of “European descent”. [i] According … (APO) to raise an armed corps for the First World War. [ii] Their participation would be as non-combatants only. The eagerness to partake in the war at the time was so strong that some men ‘travelled to …

The Angolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Brief History

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… Tensions A salient reason for the continuation of civil war after independence was a result of the reluctance of the … for power.  On August 1, 1975, UNITA formally declared war on the MPLA. Cuban and Angolan soldiers - Source: … resource wealth became a means of funding the ongoing war between the MPLA and UNITA, with both parties extensively …

The International Socialist League (ISL)

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… for South Africa’s participation in the First World War . On 22 September the ISL was formed with W. H Andrews as … position of socialists elsewhere in the world, opposed the War as they saw it as being fought over purely imperialist … from the SALP, socialists and other progressives began the War on War League. Members of the League decided to form a …

The effects of WW2 in Africa

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… as well as the new domestic priorities in the post-war period for colonial rulers. The climate before WW2 By the … rule was achieved in 1910 shortly before the First World War in 1914. Colonial rule in Africa is studied in two … self-determination and independent rule. The First World War changed things in Europe and Africa. It destroyed the …

Pretoria: The Founding of the City

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… . King Mzilikazi Image source During the First Anglo-Boer War , Pretoria was besieged twice. The first time was in … of British. On 5 June 1900, during the Second Anglo-Boer War , Field Marshall Roberts, leader of the British force, … his intention to capture the capital was disrupted by the war which continued for almost another two years. On 31 May …

Differences between Capitalism & Communism and why did it start in Russia?

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… after the Tsar's decision to enter the First World War. The Russian army was ill prepared and the war effort made matters worse. In March 1917 workers riots … into a protracted power struggle with America in the Cold War, as Russia challenged America and the rest of the …

The Aftermath of the war

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… 31, 2011 Updated August 27, 2019 The Second Anglo-Boer War resulted in heavy loss of life for both the Boers and the British. The Boers had lost the war and peace negotiations begun in March 1902. On 11 April … Treaty of Vereeniging document. … The Second Anglo-Boer War resulted in heavy loss of life for both the Boers and the …

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