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Flashcards for South Africa's Grade 12 NSC History, split into Paper 1 and Paper 2 and then by prescribed topic and key question, in the order of the DBE's examination guidelines. Delete or suspend any subdeck your class leaves out once the deck is yours.

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What is inside (20 subdecks)

  • Paper 1603 cards
    • 1. The Cold War224 cards
      • 1.1 The origins of the Cold War111 cards
      • 1.2 The extension of the Cold War: Vietnam113 cards
    • 2. Independent Africa181 cards
      • 2.1 Angola in the Cold War86 cards
      • 2.2 The Congo95 cards
    • 3. Civil society protests from the 1950s to the 1970s198 cards
      • 3.1 The US Civil Rights Movement123 cards
      • 3.2 The Black Power Movement75 cards
  • Paper 2507 cards
    • 1. Civil resistance, 1970s to 1980s: South Africa175 cards
      • 1.1 The challenge of Black Consciousness to the apartheid state79 cards
      • 1.2 The crisis of apartheid in the 1980s96 cards
    • 2. The coming of democracy to South Africa and coming to terms with the past164 cards
      • 2.1 The Truth and Reconciliation Commission69 cards
      • 2.2 The negotiated settlement and the Government of National Unity95 cards
    • 3. The end of the Cold War and a new world order, 1989 to the present168 cards
      • 3.1 A new world order85 cards
      • 3.2 The impact of Gorbachev's reforms on the Soviet Union and South Africa83 cards

Some of its cards

  • Which European country ruled the Congo before independence?
    Belgium
  • Who became State President of South Africa after P.W. Botha's stroke and resignation in 1989?
    F.W. de Klerk
  • Which law of 1995 set up South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission?
    The Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act
  • Which European country colonised Angola?
    Portugal
  • What was the Cold War between the USA and the USSR?
    A rivalry of ideology, influence and arms after 1945 that stopped short of direct war between the two
  • In which year did Mikhail Gorbachev become leader of the Soviet Communist Party?
    1985
  • Black Power
    A movement stressing black pride, self-defence and control of black communities
  • Which European country ruled Vietnam as part of French Indochina before the 1950s?
    France
  • Which two movements were banned in 1960, leaving a gap in black political organisation in South Africa?
    The ANC and the PAC
  • Who became prime minister of South Africa in 1978?
    P.W. Botha

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