Class XII: History Syllabus
CLASS-XII (Full Marks 100)
Group-A (Marks-50)
Unit—I
1. Impact of the First World War on India :
Economic impact of the First World War on India; emergence of Gandhi in Indian nationalist politics ; Champaran, Kaira Kheda and Ahmedabad Satyagrahas; nationalist response to Montagu-Chelmsforid Act and Rowlatt Act ; the Rowlatt Satyagaraha ; Non-Cooperation Movement ; First Civil Disobedience Movement ; Complete Independence Resolution of 1929 ; Second Civil Disobedience Movement. Revolutionary nationalism in the post-First World War period.
Unit—II
2. Last Phase of Indian Freedom Struggle:
Left wind and socialist trends in Indian Politics ; Trade Union and Kisan Sabha movement ; State people's struggle ; 1935 Act and the Ministry period; split within the Congress and the establishment of the Forward Bloc; 1940 Pakistan Resolution and the Pakistan movement ; Quit India Movement; Subhas Chandra Bose and the I.N.A.
Unit—III
3. Prelude to Independence:
Impact of the Second World War on British economy ; growing British interest in decolonisation; Post-War upsurge in India; heightened communal tensions in 1946-1947 ; constitutional negotiations and the Mountabatten Plan ; Partition and Independence.
Unit—IV
4. The Aftermath of Independence:
Constituent Assembly and the birth of the Indian Republic ; integration and reorganisation of States ; introduction of Planned Economy ; the Adoption of the principle of Non-Alignment as the corner stone in Indian Foreign Policy.
Group-B (Marks-50)
Unit—I:
1. The Second World War:
The approach to the Second World War: Aggressive nationalism of Germany, Italy and Japan; Failure of the Policy of Appeasement; Breakdown of the system of Collective Security and the League of Nations.
The outbreak of the Second World War: American entry in the war; Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union and its implications for the course of the War ; Causes of the defeat of Axis powers.
Unit—II:
2. The Cold War:
Background to the Cold War ; Manifestations of Cold War in international relations ; especially the Berlin Crisis ; the Korean War and the Cuban Missile Crisis ; the emergence of the Third World.
Unit —III:
3. The Challenge of Communism :
The Communist challenge to world politics : Rise of Communist China and its impact on international relations ; Vietnam War and the Defeat of the USA.
Unit-IV:
4. The Muddle of the Middle East:
The Middle East in World Politics : Establishment of Israel ; Palestine question and Arab nationalism ; Egypt under Nasser and the Suez Crisis ; Arab-Israeli wars of 1956, 1967 and 1973.
Unit—V:
5. The New World Order:
Post-Stalin era in Soviet Union and its impact on world politics ; the politics of detente ; disintegration of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War; emergence of a new world order.
Unit—VI:
6. The United Nations:
The United Nations Organisation : the UN Charter and organs of UNO ; extent of success of the UNO in international relations.
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