January 2023

Political Associations and Workers Unions

By |2022-09-15T12:35:28+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Hebert Chitepo and his wife.

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Struggle for Independence in Colonial Zimbabwe 1900-1980: Political Associations and Workers Unions

  • Africans between the 1920s-1940s saw the need to move from disorderly protests in the form of religious organizations and welfare organizations and they started forming trade unions and […]
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Geneva Conference 1976 and Malta Talks 1978

By |2022-09-15T12:35:13+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Mugabe in 1976

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Struggle for Independence in Colonial Zimbabwe 1900-1980: Geneva Conference 1976 and Malta Talks 1978

  • In October 1976 ZANU and ZAPU united to form a Patriotic Front
  • They then went to a negotiating conference in Geneva, Switzerland as a united front and all negotiation which […]
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Chapter 1: Founding Provisions

By |2022-09-15T12:35:04+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

The Republic of Zimbabwe

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Constitution of Zimbabwe: Chapter 1: Founding Provisions

The Republic

  • Zimbabwe is a unitary, democratic and sovereign republic.

Supremacy of Constitution

  • This Constitution is the supreme law of Zimbabwe and any law, practice, custom or conduct inconsistent with it is invalid to the extent of […]
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The rise of Mussolini and the Fascists party

By |2022-09-15T12:34:38+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

A mugshot of young Benito Mussolini. Image credit blogspot.com

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Dictatorship in Europe: Dictatorship in Italy: Benito Mussolini: The rise of Mussolini and the Fascists party 

  • Benito Mussolini was born in 1883 at Dovia and his mother was a school teacher.
  • He was once a socialist […]
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How Hitler got the Support of the People

By |2022-09-15T12:34:27+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Jews being harassed by police in Hitler’s Germany 193

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Dictatorship in Europe: Dictatorship in Germany:How Hitler got the Support of the People

  • The Weimer Republic had been weakened by problems it was facing and Hitler’s rise was made possible
  • The death of the Stressman in 1929 […]
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President Roosevelt and the Great Depression

By |2022-09-15T12:34:14+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The United States of America (USA) 1920-1939: President Roosevelt and the Great Depression

  • He defeated Hoover in the 1932 presidential elections and presented a ‘New Deal’
  • The new deal had the following aims:
    1. To provide employment for the unemployed
    2. To revive the […]
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Dictatorship in Italy: Benito Mussolini

By |2022-09-15T12:45:12+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

 

Il Duce. Benito Mussolini. Image by History.com Il Duce. Benito Mussolini. Image by History.com

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Dictatorship in Europe: Dictatorship in Italy: Benito Mussolini 

Post war Italy was chaotic and plagued by a lot of problems creating a fertile hotbed for the rise of Fascism and dictatorship under Benito Mussolini […]

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Groups that fought with the Ndebele on their way to W. Zimbabwe

By |2022-09-15T12:41:20+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Drawings of Mzilikazi and Lobengula. Image credit africanfederation.net Drawings of Mzilikazi and Lobengula. Image credit africanfederation.net ZIMSEC O Level History Notes:The Ndebele:Groups that fought with the Ndebele on their way to W. Zimbabwe

The Ndebele fought with the following groups as they made their way to Western Zimbabwe:

  • The  Zulu
  • The Kora
  • The Rolong
  • The […]
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The Treaties and Steps taken to form the United Nations (UN)

By |2022-09-15T12:41:05+02:00January 24th, 2023|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

The San Fransisco charter. Image credit legal.un.org The San Fransisco charter. Image credit legal.un.org ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The United Nations: The Treaties and Steps taken to form the United Nations (UN)

  • The Atlantic conference/charter of August 1941- In August of 1941 Roosevelt and Churchill drew up the charter in […]
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