Grade 12 HISTORY Paper 1
Across
- 2. A person who fights for independence and self-rule from colonial powers
- 6. Political ideology promoting state ownership and equality, adopted by some leaders
- 9. Southern state central to civil rights protests like Selma and Montgomery
- 13. Belief that if one country fell to communism, others would follow like tiles
- 14. Namibian liberation movement that fought against South African rule
- 18. Militant group promoting Black empowerment and community defence in the 1960s
- 22. Churchill’s 1946 speech warning of an “Iron Curtain” dividing Europe
- 23. Toxic chemical used by the US in Vietnam to destroy jungle cover
- 24. Peace agreement signed to end fighting in Angola in the 1990s
- 25. Black nationalist who advocated self-defense and criticised non-violent protest
- 27. Southern African country that experienced a long civil war after independence
- 28. Cold War conflict where superpowers supported opposing sides without direct fighting
- 29. Communist guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War
Down
- 1. Movement demanding equal treatment and legal protection for African Americans
- 3. Cold War competition to dominate outer space, sparked by Sputnik and NASA
- 4. Peaceful student protests at segregated lunch counters in the 1960s Civil War – Armed conflict between groups within a country, often after independence
- 5. Massacre of Vietnamese civilians by US troops in 1968, later exposed globally
- 7. Military dictator of Zaire who ruled with authoritarian control
- 8. Discrimination based on race, central issue in US civil rights struggles
- 10. Leader of North Vietnam and symbol of Vietnamese resistance to US intervention
- 11. Sudden, illegal seizures of government power, common in post-independence Africa
- 12. Soviet leader who introduced glasnost and perestroika, ending the Cold War
- 15. Angolan rebel leader who opposed MPLA and fought in the civil war
- 16. Famous speech delivered during the 1963 March on Washington
- 17. Civil rights leader who preached non-violence and led the Montgomery Bus Boycott
- 19. Former name of the Democratic Republic of Congo under Mobutu
- 20. State laws enforcing racial segregation in the southern USA
- 21. US aid programme to rebuild Europe and contain communism after WWII
- 26. Public action taken to promote social or political change