📝 Interactive Worksheet 04: Significant Events
FY8E Social Science 2026 — fill it in, check the key, print it
SIGNIFICANT WORLD EVENTS
SS2.2 Continuity and Change (SS8.2.2.1)
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TASK 1 — Complete the events table
Event
Year(s)
One impact
World War I
-
World War II
-
Fiji independence
First Commonwealth Games
First South Pacific Games
(Suva)
COVID-19 pandemic
TASK 2 — True or False
1. The Commonwealth Games of 1942 and 1946 were cancelled because of World War II.
T
F
2. The Olympic Games are held every five years.
T
F
3. The Pacific Games bring Pacific Islanders together in unity.
T
F
4. Colonisation is when a group settles away from its origin to control another area.
T
F
TASK 3 — Short answers
5. Describe ONE positive effect and ONE negative effect of a major sporting event on a host country.
6. Explain ONE major effect of colonisation on a country and its people.
ANSWER KEY (for self-marking)
• SIGNIFICANT WORLD EVENTS WWI 1914-1918; WWII 1939-1945; independence 1970; CWG 1930 (Hamilton); SPG 1963; COVID-19 2020. Impacts vary - accept sensible answers (deaths, independence, unity, closed schools/borders).
• Task 2: 1 T; 2 F (every 4 years); 3 T; 4 T.
• 5. Positive - tourism money, new stadiums, pride/unity; negative - big costs, rubbish, interrupted travel.
• 6. Loss of land, culture and identity OR new roads, schools and systems of government - any well-explained effect.
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