Secondary 2 History

8 chapters · 58 videos · aligned to the MOE syllabus

See where Secondary 2 takes you, from the fall of Singapore in 1942 to the late 1970s, and the new skills you'll need.

Find out how the Japanese controlled Syonan-to from 1942 to 1945, and why different people lived through it so differently.

Follow the strikes, riots and elections after the war, all the way to full internal self-government in 1959.

Discover why Singapore joined Malaysia in 1963, why it didn't work out, and how it became independent in 1965.

See the threats the new nation faced, and how National Service, new defences and diplomacy kept it safe.

Explore how jobs, homes, schools and health changed after 1965, and what stayed the same by the end of the 1970s.

Go deeper on the new Sec 2 skills: checking sources, working out purpose, comparing, and describe-and-explain answers.

Look back from 1299 to the end of the 1970s, and see how events and people turned an island into a nation.