Grade 12 History, Waterfall College
2014
Grade 12 IEB HISTORY PORTFOLIO – 2014
SECTION A: Tests and Exams
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3 tests (3 x 10)
Trials examinations
[30]
[25]
SECTION B:
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Historical Investigation
Oral presentation of Historical Investigation
[35]
[10]
TOTAL portfolio : [100 marks]
TAKE NOTE:
SECTION A:
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THREE examples of your best work will be chosen for the portfolio. These tasks will
take the form of either an essay or source analysis.
Your trials exam will consist of two papers. The total marks /300 will be converted
to a mark out of 25.
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FINAL MATRIC MARK:
Portfolio:
[100]
Final Examination: Paper 1
3 hours
[200]
Final Examination: Paper 2
3 hours
[100]
400 marks
Grade 12 History, Waterfall College
2014
History Themes for 2014
PAPER I
THEME 1: What was the impact of the Cold War in forming the world as it
was in the 1960s?
What were the Origins of the Cold War?
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Pre 1945 : brief background
What was the Cold War?
Why did a Cold War develop? (Yalta and Potsdam Conferences;
division of Germany)
USSR and USA and the creation of spheres of interest:
- Creation of satellite states in Eastern Europe (in brief)
- USA’s policy of containment: Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan
and Soviet reaction.
- Berlin Crises 1948 and 1961
- Containment and brinkmanship: the Cuban crisis (as an
example of containment and brinkmanship)
- Who was to blame for the Cold War? (interpretation; differing
points of view)
Case Study: Vietnam War
How was Vietnam able to win a war against the USA? (1945 to 1975)
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Background – overview of the struggle against colonial powers
prior to WWII.
The period immediately after the war in Vietnam.
Stages of the war:
1957 to 1965 – Struggle in Vietnam between the South
Vietnamese army and the Viet Cong.
1965 to 1969 – North Vietnamese-USA struggle (including the
nature of the war)
The war from Vietnamese and USA perspectives
1969 to 1975 – USA withdrawal from Vietnam (the impact on US
politics)
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THEME 5: How did South Africa emerge as a democracy from the crises
of the 1990s?
 The Negotiated settlement and the Government
of National Unity
- Secret negotiations with the ANC-in-exile
- Negotiations with Mandela
 1989 to 1991:
- Unbanning of organisations
- Release of political prisoners (incl. Mandela)
- Debates around negotiations (Groote Schuur and
Pretoria Minutes)
- CODESA 1
 Breakdown of negotiations:
- Whites only referendum
- Violence in the 1990s and debates around violence
(Third Force, Boipatong and Bisho)
- CODESA breaks down
- Record of Understanding and the ‘sunset’ clause
 Multi-party negotiation process resumes:
- Formal multi-party negotiations resumed
- Murder of Chris Hani
 Ongoing violence:
- Attempts to derail negotiations flares up after
agreements are reached
- AWB invasion of World Trade Centre
- St James Massacre; killing at Heidelberg Tavern
 Final road to democracy in 1994:
- Fall of Mangope and Gqozo and Bophutatswana
shootings
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- Inkatha Freedom Party March to Shell House and
Shell House Massacre
- The drafting of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights
- Freedom Front and IFP join elections
- 27 April election and the Government of National
Unity
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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Reasons for the TRC
Restorative justice and the TRC hearings
Debates concerning the TRC:
- Positive aspects
- Amnesty provisions and problems with amnesty
- Focus on human rights of 1980s and ignoring institutional
violence and the human rights abuses of Apartheid
- Reparations
- Responses of political parties and reasons for the responses to
the TRC and the final report of the TRC: National Party, Inkatha
Freedom Party and the African National Congress.
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THEME 6: The end of the Cold War and a new world order: 1989 to the
present
How has the world changed since the 1960s?
The end of the Cold War: The events of 1989
 Gorbachev’s reforms in the Soviet Union (reasons for his
reforms and the impact of these reforms)
 Events in Eastern Europe (Poland, Czechoslovakia,
Romania and Hungary)
- Events in Poland – significance of ‘Solidarity’
- Germany: the fall of the Berlin Wall
- Collapse of the USSR and the end of the Cold War
- Impact on South Africa
A new world order
 Defining globalisation
 Balance of world power and impact on Africa
 Dominance of global Western capitalism: Bretton
Woods, IMF and World Bank; World Trade
Organisation; civil society resistance to global
capitalism
 South Africa in the new world order – challenges of
poverty and inequality; redress of past economic
injustices (RDP and land claims); the developmental
state as an attempt to solve these problems
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PAPER II
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THEME 3: Civil Society protests 1950s to 1970s
What forms of civil society protest emerged from the 1960s up to 1990?
US Civil Rights Movements
 Role, impact and influence of Martin Luther King Jr
 The impact of passive resistance (Gandhi) on Martin
Luther King
 Forms of protest through civil disobedience:
Montgomery bus boycott, sit-ins, school desegregation
(Little Rock, Arkansas), marches including Lincoln
Memorial, Birmingham campaign and SelmaMontgomery marches
 Short-term and long-term gains
Black Power Movement
 Reasons for the movement
 Black Panthers
 Stokely Carmichael and Malcolm X
 Short- term and long-term gains
Other Forms of Civil Society Protests
 Women’s liberation and feminist movements in the
1960s and 1970s
 The peace movements: disarmament; students and antiwar movements; and hippie movement.
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THEME 4: Civil Resistance in South Africa 1970s to 1980
1. The challenge of Black Consciousness to the Apartheid state
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The nature and aims of Black Consciousness
The role of Steve Biko
The 1976 Soweto Uprising (were the students influenced by
Black Consciousness?)
2. Internal and External Pressures on the South African
Government in the 1980s
 Policies of Botha’s government – Total Strategy (Repression
and Reform)
Internal Pressures
 Response to Botha’s ‘reforms’ – new methods of
mobilisation; labour’s ‘rolling mass action’; mass civic action to
make the country ungovernable (civics, UDF, Mass Democratic
Movement, End Conscription Campaign and Black Sash).
External Pressures
 International anti-Apartheid movements (sports
boycott; cultural boycott; academic boycott; consumer
boycott; disinvestment; sanctions; Release Mandela
campaign; role of the international trade unions)
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2014
Grade 12 IEB HISTORY : Breakdown of examinations for 2014
PAPER I
Section A
SOURCE BASED PAPER
3 hrs
[200]
Single Source Analysis
Three questions: one from each theme.
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1 textual analysis (e.g. a speech)
1 visual analysis (e.g. cartoon/ photograph)
1 linked to a current issue in the media (e.g. cartoon/newspaper article: you will
have to link current events with issues from the past. Stay up to date with current
events! Read the newspaper.)
(3 x 20) 60 marks
Section B
Source Based Questions
A range of sources will be provided on ONE of the three themes on which a number of
questions will be set.
90 marks
Section C
Source Based Essay
You will use the sources provided in Section B to write this essay.
50 marks
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PAPER II
Section A
EXTENDED WRITING PAPER
2 hrs
2014
[150]
Discursive Essays
Choice of THREE questions: one from each theme. Answer only one.
70 marks
Section B
Stimulus based extended writing
Choice of THREE questions: one from each theme. Answer only one
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A stimulus source (photo; quote; piece of writing) will be provided.
Extended writing = 350 – 400 words.
30 marks
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Grade 12 History, Waterfall College
2014
Grade 12 IEB HISTORY YEAR PLAN – 2014
Term One
1> Forms of Civil Society Protest 1950s to 1970s (Paper 2)
(textbook and notes)
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Civil Rights movement and Martin Luther King
Black Power and Malcolm X
Anti-war movement
Women’s movement
Student’s movement
2>What was the impact of the Cold War in forming the world as it was
in the 1960s? (Paper 1)
(textbook and notes)
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Origins of Cold War tensions (Yalta and Potsdam)
Crises in Germany in 1948 and 1961 (Berlin Airlift and Berlin Wall)
Containment: Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan
Nato and Warsaw Pact
Case Study: Vietnam
Assesment: Discursive Essay; Extended writing; Control Test, Source work.
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Term Two
3. Civil Resistance in SA
1970s:
 Black Consciousness
 Steve Biko
 Soweto Uprising
1980s:
 Botha’s ‘reforms’
 Total Onslaught
 Internal pressures (UDF, ECC, MDM, Black Sash etc)
 External pressures (anti-apartheid movement,
boycotts, sanctions etc)
4. What was the impact of the collapse of USSR on the world?
(Paper 1)
(textbook and notes)
 Causes of the collapse of the USSR
 Gorbachev’s reforms
 Events in Eastern Europe
 Impact of the collapse on the balance of power – USA, and
consequences for Africa and South Africa.
 Globalisation
 RDP, GEAR and Land Claims
5. How did South Africa emerge as a democracy? (Paper 1)
 Transition from apartheid to democracy – negotiations, violence,
compromise, solutions
 CODESA
Assessment: Heritage task, Historical Investigation submitted; Oral
Presentation of Historical Investigation; June examinations
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Term Three:
6. Complete: How did South Africa emerge as a democracy?
 Government of National Unity (GNU)
 Dealing with the past and facing the future - TRC
7. Revision
8. Trials Examination
Term Four:
9. Revision
10.Final Examination