February 2025

Mussolini’s Foreign policy

By |2025-02-12T09:41:26+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Benito Mussolini with Adolf Hitler. Image credit Smithsonian Magazine

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Dictatorship in Europe: Dictatorship in Italy: Benito Mussolini: Mussolini’s Foreign policy

Foreign expansion

  • As things got difficult at home Mussolini started embarking on foreign adventures.
  • He praised glories of war and promised the recreation of the Roman Empire […]
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How Successful was Hitler’s Domestic Policy

By |2025-02-12T09:04:57+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Volkswagen (The People’s Car) was instituted under Hitler. Image credit Pintrest

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Dictatorship in Europe: Dictatorship in Germany: How Successful was Hitler’s Domestic Policy

Successes of the Policy

  • Hitler managed to reduce and eventually end unemployment in Germany
  • Hitler also managed to rebuild infrastructure that had been […]
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Portuguese attempts to colonise the Mutapa State

By |2025-02-12T09:43:13+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Early Portoguese Soldiers. Image credit twcenter.net Early Portuguese Soldiers. Image credit twcenter.net ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Portuguese in Zambezi Valley: Portuguese attempts to colonise the Mutapa State

  • Due to a decline in trade the Portuguese decided to send an emissary to the Mutapa State
  • He was tasked with tracing […]
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The tribes that formed (were part of) the Ndebele society

By |2025-02-12T09:10:26+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

A watercolour showing Mzilikazi Khumalo King of the Ndebele. Image credit africanfederation.net A watercolour showing Mzilikazi Khumalo King of the Ndebele. Image credit africanfederation.net ZIMSEC O Level History Notes:The Ndebele:The tribes that formed (were part of) the Ndebele society

The following tribes made up the Ndebele Society:

  • The Ndebele (the Khumalo originally […]
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The Treaties and Steps taken to form the United Nations (UN)

By |2025-02-12T09:39:58+02:00February 12th, 2025|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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The purpose of the Great Zimbabwe structures

By |2025-02-12T09:11:18+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Great Zimbabwe ruins from a distance. Image credit africazim-travel.com

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Great Zimbabwe state (Kingdom): The purpose of the Great Zimbabwe structures

  • The uses of the Great Zimbabwe structure has been the subject of much speculation
  • Some experts have tried to come up with a list of plausible uses […]
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Social Organisation of the Zulu State

By |2025-02-12T09:37:37+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Zulu women dancing. Image credit zululandobserver.co.za

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The Zulu State: Social Organisation of the Zulu State

  • There was division of labour in the Zulu state, that is men did cattle rearing whist women did agriculture
  • Boys were taught to be aggressive whilst girls were taught to be submissive

    • […]

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Places Explored by Antonio Fernandez

By |2025-02-12T08:57:55+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

A potrait of Álvaro Fernandes. Image credit princeton.edu

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes:The Portuguese in the Zambezi Valley: Places Axplored by Antonio Fernandez

  • His other name(real name) was Álvaro Fernandes
  • He was also known by the pompous title:  Pedro Fernandes de Queirós
  • This is a list of places visited by Antonia Fernandez when […]
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Major stages of Zimbabwean Colonization

By |2025-02-12T09:39:51+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

A photograph of the Rudd Concession

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes:Stages of Zimbabwean Colonization

  • Moffat treaty 1888
  • Rudd Concession 1888
  • Royal Charter 1889
  • Formation of the BSAC 1890
  • Jameson’s Party to Lobengula 1890
  • The Pioneer Column 1890
  • The war of dispossession 1893-1894
  • The first Chimurenga 1896-1897

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European powers and their African colonies

By |2025-02-12T09:20:45+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

European powers and their colonies

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Scramble and Partition of Africa: European powers and their African colonies

  • Britain had the most coonies in Africa.
  • Some African countries that were not colonised by the European powers
  • These are Liberia which was a protectorate of USA and
  • Ethiopia which […]
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