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Nationals Story are |
Events that have impacted a country and is shared by everyone for all to remember |
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Oral History |
The collection and study of historical information using recordings of interviews with people who can recall the past |
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Archaeology |
The study of the past through physical remains |
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Sources are |
The items of interest in which have come from a time and they vary in types |
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Primary source |
A source that has come from the time in history |
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Secondary source |
A source that had come after the time of history |
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Perspective |
Your view of something |
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Nelson Mandela joined which group in 1943 |
The ANC |
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Apartheid |
Segregation of the black community from the whites |
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What was the purpose of the ANC |
To overthrow the apartheid established to racial segregation that privileged whites |
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Who was Nelson Mandela influenced by and who did he join under that influence |
Influenced by Marxism, he secretly joined the banned SACP South African Communist Party |
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In what year was Mandela arrested, how long and what for? |
In 1962 he was arrested for conspiring to overthrow the state and was sentenced to life imprisonment |
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How long did Mandela ACTUALLY spend in prison |
27 years |
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what happened in 1994 |
Mandela lead the ANC to victory in a multicultural general election |
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What agreement did de klerk and Mandela reach when Mandela was released |
To end the apartheid |
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What is Mandela best known as in South Africa |
Madiba - “Father of the nation” |
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What is a Terrorist |
A terrorist is viewed as a person who uses fear in a bid to motivate the civilians so that they can behave in a certain political manner |
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What is a Freedom fighter |
A freedom fighter is regarded as a person who acts on behalf of others usually oppressed to gain liberty and freedom |
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What is the difference between a freedom fighter and a terrorist |
A terrorist has a cruel agenda to kill random civilians to seek total annihilation whereas a freedom fighter has the agenda to gain liberty and freedom for all whilst putting pressure on the government to do so |
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The sharpeville massacre |
March the 21st 1960 69 people killed for expressing their opinion Police opened fire on the blacks This event made Mandela and the ANC resort to violent methods themselves |
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The sharpeville massacre |
March the 21st 1960 69 people killed for expressing their opinion Police opened fire on the blacks This event made Mandela and the ANC resort to violent methods themselves |
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Soweto is |
A shanty town Town used before the apartheid but for that purpose |