History: World War Ii and South Africa
History Grade 11 NSC
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Five 80 minute lessons per week In Grade 11 the History mark is comprised of Oral Work (Class Work, Projects and Assignments) 40% and Written work (2 or 3 tests per half year) 60%
1. Term Topic: Communism in Russia 1900 to 1940 - What is communism? - The February and October revolutions of 1917: Political, economic and social causes Mass participation of workers and peasants Trotsky’s role The influence on Lenin’s revolutionary theory - The civil war and war communism - Lenin seizes control of the state: the party as the head of the proletariat - Lenin’s interpretation of Marxism - The NEP: the adaptation of Marxism - Death of Lenin and the power struggle: national versus internationalism (Trotsky and Stalin) - Stalin’s interpretation of Marxism-Leninism: Collectivisation and industrialisation Political terror – purges and show trials of the 1930s The effect of Stalin’s policies on the Soviet people The coming of the Second World War Topic: Capitalism in the USA 1900 to 1940 - The nature of capitalism in the USA - The ‘American Dream’ - Capitalist boom of the 1920s – strengths and weaknesses in the US economy - USA society in the 1920s - Wall Street Crash of 1929 – reasons for and economic and social impact - Election of Roosevelt – ‘New Deal’ - Analysis of the New Deal – legislation and programmes for relief, recovery and reform - Opposition to the New Deal – analysis of the criticism - Assessment of the New Deal – to what extent did it weaken or strengthen USA capitalism - Outbreak of the Second World War and the economic recovery of the USA
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Topic: Impact of and responses to the crisis of capitalism in the USA in other parts of the world - Germany – rise of Hitler and the Nazi party - Japan – rise of militarist government Pearl Harbour and World War Two
2. Term Topic: Ideas of Race in the late 19th and 20th centuries - Notions about the hierarchies of race in the 19th century - Explanation of eugenics: positive (family planning)
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Five 80 minute lessons per week In Grade 11 the History mark is comprised of Oral Work (Class Work, Projects and Assignments) 40% and Written work (2 or 3 tests per half year) 60%
1. Term Topic: Communism in Russia 1900 to 1940 - What is communism? - The February and October revolutions of 1917: Political, economic and social causes Mass participation of workers and peasants Trotsky’s role The influence on Lenin’s revolutionary theory - The civil war and war communism - Lenin seizes control of the state: the party as the head of the proletariat - Lenin’s interpretation of Marxism - The NEP: the adaptation of Marxism - Death of Lenin and the power struggle: national versus internationalism (Trotsky and Stalin) - Stalin’s interpretation of Marxism-Leninism: Collectivisation and industrialisation Political terror – purges and show trials of the 1930s The effect of Stalin’s policies on the Soviet people The coming of the Second World War Topic: Capitalism in the USA 1900 to 1940 - The nature of capitalism in the USA - The ‘American Dream’ - Capitalist boom of the 1920s – strengths and weaknesses in the US economy - USA society in the 1920s - Wall Street Crash of 1929 – reasons for and economic and social impact - Election of Roosevelt – ‘New Deal’ - Analysis of the New Deal – legislation and programmes for relief, recovery and reform - Opposition to the New Deal – analysis of the criticism - Assessment of the New Deal – to what extent did it weaken or strengthen USA capitalism - Outbreak of the Second World War and the economic recovery of the USA
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Topic: Impact of and responses to the crisis of capitalism in the USA in other parts of the world - Germany – rise of Hitler and the Nazi party - Japan – rise of militarist government Pearl Harbour and World War Two
2. Term Topic: Ideas of Race in the late 19th and 20th centuries - Notions about the hierarchies of race in the 19th century - Explanation of eugenics: positive (family planning)