Grade 11

History

CAPS-aligned History practice for Grade 11 — 4 terms, 16 topics, with instant feedback, streaks and a leaderboard.

Term 1

  • Tsarism and the 1905 Revolution

    Autocracy under Nicholas II, Bloody Sunday, the October Manifesto, and the limits of reform.

  • The 1917 Russian Revolution

    World War I, the February Revolution, Lenin, and the Bolshevik seizure of power.

  • Stalin's USSR

    Collectivisation, industrialisation, famine, the Great Terror, and the Gulag.

  • Communist Ideology

    Marxism, Leninism, state ownership, central planning, and communist propaganda.

Term 2

  • The Roaring Twenties

    Mass production, consumer culture, social change, and the inequalities beneath prosperity.

  • The Wall Street Crash and Great Depression

    Speculation, bank failures, unemployment, Hoovervilles, and the global spread of the Depression.

  • Roosevelt's New Deal

    The three Rs, key programmes, criticisms, and the legacy of state intervention.

  • Capitalism versus Communism

    Comparing private ownership, planning, ideology, and the USA-USSR debate in the 1930s.

Term 3

  • Scientific Racism

    Racial classification, Social Darwinism, eugenics, and how pseudo-science justified oppression.

  • Nazism and Race

    Aryan supremacy, anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and the origins of modern human rights law.

  • Segregation and Apartheid

    Jim Crow, apartheid legislation, and a comparison of racist systems in the USA and South Africa.

  • Resistance to Racism

    Civil rights, anti-apartheid struggle, international solidarity, and the defeat of racist systems.

Term 4

  • African Nationalism

    The meaning of nationalism, the ANC, Pan-Africanism, and the growth of independence movements.

  • Decolonisation in Africa

    Post-war independence, Ghana, Kenya, Algeria, the Year of Africa, and colonial legacies.

  • Zionism and Arab Nationalism

    Competing claims to Palestine, the 1948 war, and the Palestinian refugee crisis.

  • Liberation Movements

    The ANC, MK, regional liberation struggles, and the challenges of nation-building.

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