Question:
Name any two world institutions which were established under the Bretton Woods. Also mention one objective of each. [CBSE 2014]
Answer:
(i) International Monetary Fund.
(ii) World Bank.
The Making of a Global World
Q 1.
Which two crucial influences, shaped post-war reconstruction ?
Q 2.
Why did the inflow of fine Indian cotton begin to decline in the 19th century ?
Q 3.
What is NIF.O ?
Or
Why did Group 77 countries demand a New International Economic Order ? Explain. [CBSE 2009 (D). Sept, 2010]
Or
Why did most of the developing countries organise themselves as a group the Group of 77 (G-77) ? [CBSE 2012)
Q 4.
Which two countries were among the world's richest until the 18th century ?
Q 5.
What was the main aim of the post-war international economic system in the world ?
Q 6.
What were the impacts of the Bretton Woods system ? Explain.
Q 7.
Name the economist who thought that India gold exports during the Great Depression of 1929 promoted global economic recovery.
Q 8.
“The First World War was fought between two power blocs” Explain.
Q 9.
Define Rinderpest. [CBSE Sept. 2010, 2011, 2012]
Q 10.
What was the impact of germs on the America's original inhabitants ?
Q 11.
What changed the world profoundly in the 19th century ?
Q 12.
Highlight three main features of life of African people before the coming of Europeans. [CBSE 2013]
Q 13.
India played a crucial role in the late 19th century world economy”. Explain. [CBSE 2014]
Q 14.
What at the factors which transformed 19th century world ?
Q 15.
Why most of the borders of African countries run straight ?
Q 16.
Name any two countries which became major supplier of wheat during the First World War.
Q 17.
Name the movement launched by Gandhiji during the Great Depression of 1929.
Q 18.
Mention any four factors responsible for indentured labour.
Q 19.
What was mass production ? Who was pioneer of mass production ? [CBSE 2014]
Q 20.
Name any two world institutions which were established under the Bretton Woods. Also mention one objective of each. [CBSE 2014]
Q 21.
Why were IMF and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development formed ?
Q 22.
What was the impact of the Great Depression on USA ? Explain. [CBSE 2013]
Q 23.
Mention the impact of the First World War on agricultural economies.
Q 24.
The pre-modem world shrank greatly in the 16th century”. Why ?
Q 25.
Who discovered America ?
Q 26.
What were the limitations of IMF and the World Bank ? Mention any two.
Q 27.
What do you know about the Great Depression ? Explain the major factors responsible for the Great Depression. [CBSE 2008 (F), Sept. 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013]
Q 28.
‘The First World War was modern industrial war’. Explain.
Or
Explain how the First World War was so horrible a war like none other before. [CBSE 2010 (0)]
Or
How far is it correct to say that "The First World Wax was the First modem industrial war”? Explain. [CBSE Sept. 2010]
Q 29.
What were silk routes ? [CBSE 2014]
Q 30.
What were the canal colonies ? Why and where they were set up ?
Q 31.
Who was indentured labourer ?
Q 32.
Define ‘trade surplus’. Why Britain had a trade surplus with India ? [CBSE Sept. 2014]
Q 33.
Give two examples of different types of global exchanges which took place before the seventeenth century, choosing one example from Asia and one from the Americas.
Q 34.
Give a brief account on Indian Bankers and Traders.
Q 35.
‘The indentured workers had discovered their own ways of surviving.” Explain. [CBSE 2013]
Or
How did the indentured labourers maintain their cultural identity in other part of the world ? [CBSE 2013]
Q 36.
The pre-modern world shrank greatly in the 16th century.' Explain.
Q 37.
Name the countries which wore exporting food grains to Britain.
Q 38.
Why were European attracted to Africa in die late 19th century ? Give one reason.
Q 39.
How were the indentured workers exploited by the recruiting agents ?
Q 40.
How was the income received from trade surplus with India used by Britain ? [CBSE 2008 (D)]
Q 41.
What was Henry Ford's best cost cutting decision ?
Q 42.
Why China and other Asian countries became attractive destination for investment by foreign MNC's ?
Q 44.
"European conquests produced many painful economic, social and ecological changes through which the colonised societies were brought into the world economy."Explain. [CBSE 2015]
Q 45.
What is meant by the Bretton Woods Agreement?
Q 46.
Write a brief note on the Irish Potato Famine'.
Q 47.
Write a short note on Sir Henry Morton Stanley.
Q 48.
Explain the consequences of the Second World War.
Or
Describe in brief the destruction caused during the Second World War. [CBSE 2010 (O), Sept. 2012]
Q 49.
Define the term ‘Trade Surplus’. How was the income received from trade surplus with India used by Britain? [CBSE 2010, 2012, 2011]
Q 50.
What were Corn Laws ? Why were these Laws abolished ? [CBSE 2009 (F) Sept. 2010, 2014]
