History

The Making of a Global World

Question:

What was the impact of the Great Depression on USA ? Explain. [CBSE 2013]

Answer:

(i) With the fall in prices and the prospect of a depression, the US banks also slashed domestic lending, and called back loans.
(ii) Farms were unable to sell their harvests.
(iii) Faced with falling income, many households in the US could not repay what they had borrowed, and were forced to give up their homes, cars and other consumer durables.
(iv) industrial production registered a fail of about 35 per cent.
(v) The number of the unemployed started rising, and in 1933. it touched 17 million. As unemployment soared, people trudged long distances looking for any work they could find. Ultimately, the US banking system itself collapsed.

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The Making of a Global World

Q 1.

What is difference between international momentary system and the Bretton Woods system?

Q 2.

Mention any four factors responsible for indentured labour.

Q 3.

Name the economist who thought that India gold exports during the Great Depression of 1929 promoted global economic recovery.

Q 4.

The First World War was a war like no other before. Justify.

Q 5.

What was the impact of the Great Depression on USA ? Explain. [CBSE 2013]

Q 6.

Which was the world's first mass produced car?

Q 7.

What were Corn Laws ? Why these Laws were abolished ?

Q 8.

Name the technology which enabled the transportation of perishable foods over.

Q 9.

Name any two countries which became major supplier of wheat during the First World War.

Q 10.

Explain the impact of the First World War on Britain.
Or
How did the First World War change the economic life of the people in Britain ? Explain. [CBSE 2008 (D)]
Or
Describe in brief the world economic conditions of the post First World War period. [CBSE 2010 (D), Sept. 2012, 2013]

Q 11.

Who discovered America ?

Q 12.

What were the canal colonies ? Why and where they were set up ?

Q 13.

Who was indentured labourer ?

Q 14.

Give two examples from history to show the impact of technology on food availability.

Q 15.

Give two examples of different types of global exchanges which took place before the 17th century, choosing one example from Asia, and one from the America.

Q 16.

Highlight three main features of life of African people before the coming of Europeans. [CBSE 2013]

Q 17.

India played a crucial role in the late 19th century world economy”. Explain. [CBSE 2014]

Q 18.

Why were European attracted to Africa in die late 19th century ? Give one reason.

Q 19.

What were the limitations of IMF and the World Bank ? Mention any two.

Q 20.

What were the main sources of attraction for Europeans to come to Africa in the late nineteenth century ? How did they exploit their resources ? [CBSE 2010 (F)]

Q 21.

The pre-modern world shrank greatly in the 16th century.' Explain.

Q 22.

Name any four colonial powers of the 19th century.

Q 23.

How rinderpest arrived in Africa in the late 1880's ?      [CBSE 2014]

Q 24.

How were the indentured workers exploited by the recruiting agents ?

Q 25.

Why China and other Asian countries became attractive destination for investment by foreign MNC's ?

Q 26.

What is G-77 ?

Q 27.

How was the food problem solved in Britain after the scrapping of the ‘Corn Laws’ ? Explain. [CBSE 2009 (O)]

Q 28.

The decision of MNCs to relocate production to Asian countries.

Q 29.

Explain the three types of movements or flows within international economic exchange. Find one example of each type of flow which involved India and Indians, and write a short account of it.

Q 30.

What are canal colonies' ?

Q 31.

What were the crucial influences that shaped post-war ( II World War) reconstruction?

Q 32.

What were the impacts of the Bretton Woods system ? Explain.

Q 33.

Define the term ‘Trade Surplus’. How was the income received from trade surplus with India used by Britain? [CBSE 2010, 2012, 2011]

Q 34.

Explain the impact of the Great Depression on the Indian economy. [CBSE Sept. 2010, 2014]
Or
Explain the impact of the Great Depression on Indian farmers in the early twentieth century. [CBSE 2009 (F), Sept. 2012]

Q 35.

What were Corn Laws ? Why were these Laws abolished ? [CBSE 2009 (F) Sept. 2010, 2014]

Q 36.

Mention the impact of the First World War on agricultural economies.

Q 37.

What were silk routes ? [CBSE 2014]

Q 38.

What at the factors which transformed 19th century world ?

Q 39.

Name the disease which had terrifying impact on people's livelihoods and local economy of Africa during 1890's.

Q 40.

What were the main destinations of Indian indentured migrants ?

Q 41.

What was Henry Ford's best cost cutting decision ?

Q 42.

Name the movement launched by Gandhiji during the Great Depression of 1929.

Q 43.

Name any two world institutions which were established under the Bretton Woods. Also mention one objective of each. [CBSE 2014]

Q 44.

What was the main aim of the post-war international economic system in the world ?

Q 45.

What were the social advantages of invention of refrigerated ships ?

Q 46.

What was the impact of the spread of rinderpest or the cattle plague on the African people ? Explain. [CBSE 2009 (O)]
Or
How did rinderpest change .the economy of the African society ?  [CBSE Sept. 2010, 2011]
Or
Explain the social impact of introduction of rinderpest in Africa.
Or
Describe briefly the effects of rinderpest in Africa in the 1890's. [CBSE Sept. 2011, 2012, 2014]

Q 47.

What is meant by the Bretton Woods Agreement?

Q 48.

Indentured labour migration from India discuss its causes and its impact.

Q 49.

Write a short note on Sir Henry Morton Stanley.

Q 50.

Explain the impacts of scrapping of the Corn Law. [CBSE Sept, 2010, 2014]
Or
What was the result of the abolishing of Corn Laws? [CBSE Sept, 2010, 2012]