1. Extension of the Cold War
Question focus:
The Cuban Missile Crisis
• The roles of the USA and USSR in Cuba
• The Cuban Missile Crisis
• Containment and brinkmanship: Cuba as an example
• Who was to blame for the Cold War in Cuba?
2. Independent AfricaQuestion focus: Africa in the Cold War:
Case study:
Angola
• Angola: Colonialism and independence
• Outbreak of civil war in 1974 (MPLA and UNITA)
• Reasons for and nature of involvement in Angola (USSR, USA, Cuba, China, South Africa); impact on regional stability
• Significance of the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale 1987 and 1988
3. Civil society protests from the 1950s to the 1970sQuestion focus: The Black Power Movement
• Reasons for the Black Power Movement
• Formation of the Black Panther Party
• Roles of Stokely Carmichael and Malcolm X
• Short-term and long-term gains
1. The Cold War
Question focus:
Case Study: China
• Introduction: Establishment of Communist China in 1949 (Background)
• Cultural revolution
• Chinese relations with the Soviet Union and the USA from 1949 to 1973
• China's changing relationships with neighbouring states: Tibet, India, Vietnam, Taiwan (in broad outline)
• China as a superpower (in broad outline)
• China's economic liberalisation on relations with the rest of the world since Mao's death
2. Independent AfricaQuestion focus : Comparative case studies on the Congo and Tanzania
• What were the ideas that influenced the independent states?
• Political, economic, social and cultural successes and challenges faced by the Congo and Tanzania
3. Civil society protests from the 1950s to the 1970sQuestion focus: The US Civil Rights Movement
• Reasons and origins of the Civil Rights Movement in the USA
• Role, impact and influence of Martin Luther King Jr
• Forms of protest through civil disobedience: Montgomery bus boycott, sit-ins, marches, including those to Lincoln Memorial, Birmingham campaign and SelmaMontgomery marches
• Short-term and long-term gains
1. Civil Resistance, 1970s to 1980s: South Africa
Question focus: The challenge of Black Consciousness to the apartheid state
• The nature and aims of Black Consciousness
• The role of Steve Biko • Black Consciousness Movement (BCM)
• The challenge posed by the ideas of Black Consciousness to the state
• The 1976 Soweto uprising–briefly, relating to the influence of BCM on the students
• The legacy of Black Consciousness on South African politics
2. The coming of democracy to South Africa and coming to terms with the pastQuestion focus: The TRC
• Reasons for the TRC hearings
• The debates concerning the TRC
• Positive aspects of the TRC
• Amnesty and reparations
• Responses of political parties to the TRC and the final report of the TRC
3. The end of the Cold War and a new order 1989 to the present Question focus: New World Order• What is globalisation?
• Emerging economies and different forms of capitalism: BRICS
• South Africa's success in avoiding outright civil war and President Mandela's policy of reconciliation
• Responses to globalisation
1. Civil Resistance, 1970s to 1980s: South Africa
Question focus: The crisis of apartheid in the 1980s
• Government attempts to reform apartheid
• International response
• International anti-apartheid movements
• Anti-Apartheid Movements in Britain and Ireland
• Activities of the Movements: sports boycott; cultural boycott; academic boycott; consumer boycott; disinvestment; sanctions; release Mandela campaign
• Support for the anti-apartheid struggle in Africa: Frontline states
2. The coming of democracy to South Africa and coming to terms with the past Question focus: Negotiated settlement and the Government of National Unity• Beginning of negotiations 1990–1991
• Breakdown of negotiations
• Multiparty negotiation process resumes
• Ongoing violence
• Final road to democracy 1994
3. The end of the Cold War and a new world orderQuestion focus: The end of the Cold War: The events of 1989
• Gorbachev's reforms in the Soviet Union
• The disintegration of the Soviet Union
• Turning point in South Africa (the collapse of the Soviet Union and its impact on South Africa)