100+ Free Cameroon GCE Ordinary Level History Practice Questions

Cameroon History 1884–1916 (German Protectorate)

European traders and missionary societies (Alfred Saker, Joseph Merrick, English Baptist Missionary Society); the 12 July 1884 Germano-Duala Treaty; Gustav Nachtigal and the annexation of Kamerun; failure of British annexation and Edward Hewett ('Too Late Hewett'); German colonial governors (Julius von Soden, Jesko von Puttkamer, Otto Gleim, Karl Ebermaier); infrastructure and plantation economy (WAPV, railways, forced labour, head taxes); indigenous resistance (Lock Priso, Kuva Likenye, Fontem Asunganyi, Martin-Paul Samba, Rudolph Manga Bell); and the World War I Allied military campaign in Cameroon (1914–1916, Dobell, Aymerich, Siege of Mora, German retreat to Rio Muni).

Cameroon History 1916–1961 (British & French Rule, Decolonization)

The 1916 Picot Line and the 1919 Milner-Simon Declaration partition; League of Nations Mandate and United Nations Trusteeship; French Cameroun colonial policy (direct rule, indigénat, prestation/corvée, assimilation and association); nationalist movements in French Cameroun (formation of UPC in 1948, Ruben Um Nyobé, Félix Moumié, 1955 uprising and ban, independence on 1 January 1960 under Ahmadou Ahidjo); British Southern Cameroons administration as part of Eastern Nigeria (Indirect Rule, Native Authorities, CDC established in 1947); political party development (E.M.L. Endeley, KNC, J.N. Foncha, KNDP, CPNC); the 1953 Eastern Regional Crisis; the 1954 Lyttelton Constitution and quasi-regional status; the 1959 Mamfe Conference; and the UN Plebiscite of 11 February 1961.

Cameroon History 1961–Present (Federal to Unitary Republic)

The July 1961 Foumban Constitutional Conference; birth of the Federal Republic of Cameroon on 1 October 1961 (East and West Cameroon federal structures and dual premierships); political consolidation and creation of the Cameroon National Union (CNU/UNC) single party in September 1966; the 20 May 1972 Referendum ('Peaceful Revolution') and establishment of the United Republic of Cameroon; the end of the UPC maquis and execution of Ernest Ouandié (1971); the constitutional transition from Ahmadou Ahidjo to Paul Biya in November 1982; the 1984 coup attempt and name change to Republic of Cameroon; the 1990 re-emergence of multiparty politics (SDF launch, Liberty Laws); the 1996 Constitution; and the Bakassi Peninsula boundary dispute (ICJ judgment of 2002 and 2006 Greentree Agreement).

African History (19th & 20th Centuries)

The Scramble for Africa and the Berlin West Africa Conference (1884–1885, Otto von Bismarck, Effective Occupation); King Leopold II and the Congo Free State; comparative colonial administrative policies in West Africa (British Indirect Rule formulated by Lord Lugard vs. French Assimilation and the Four Communes of Senegal); armed resistance to colonial rule (Battle of Adwa 1896 in Ethiopia, Maji Maji Rebellion in German East Africa, Mau Mau Rebellion in Kenya); decolonization milestones (Ghanaian independence in 1957 under Kwame Nkrumah, Nigerian independence in 1960); the Apartheid system in South Africa (1948 National Party victory, Pass Laws, Sharpeville Massacre 1960, Nelson Mandela and the ANC, 1994 democratic transition); and the founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in 1963.

World History since 1870

Causes of World War I (militarism, alliance systems - Triple Alliance vs. Triple Entente, imperialism, Balkan nationalism, Sarajevo assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, Schlieffen Plan); the Treaty of Versailles (1919, War Guilt Clause 231, reparations, territorial settlements, mandate system); the League of Nations (structure, Covenant, strengths, weaknesses, failure in Manchuria and Abyssinia); the rise of totalitarian dictatorships (Mussolini in Italy, Hitler in Germany); causes of World War II (appeasement, Munich Agreement 1938, Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, invasion of Poland 1939); turning points of WWII (Stalingrad); the founding and structure of the United Nations Organization (UN Charter 1945, Security Council veto power, General Assembly, ICJ, WHO, UNESCO); and Cold War dynamics (Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO vs. Warsaw Pact, Cuban Missile Crisis 1962, fall of the Berlin Wall 1989).