History

The Making of a Global World

Question:

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

Answer:

(i) The agricultural economies also suffered because of First World War.
(ill Before the War. Eastern Europe was a major supplier of wheat in the world market.
{iii) When this supply was disrupted during the First World War. wheat production of Canada. America and Australia expanded dramatically. But once the War was over, production in Eastern Europe revived and created a glut in the wheat output. Grain prices fell, rural income declined and farmers fell deeper into debt.

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The Making of a Global World

Q 1.

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

Q 2.

Why were IMF and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development formed ?

Q 3.

Mention any four factors responsible for indentured labour.

Q 4.

What steps were taken by the British government to improve agriculture in West Punjab ?

Q 5.

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

Q 6.

Write any three factors responsible for indentured labour migration from India. [CBSE Sept. 2010. 2013]

Q 7.

Name any two Indian groups of bankers who financed export agriculture in Central and South-east Asia.

Q 8.

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

Q 9.

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

Q 10.

Which two crucial influences, shaped post-war reconstruction ?

Q 11.

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

Q 12.

‘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 13.

“The First World War was fought between two power blocs” Explain.

Q 14.

"Food offers many examples of long distance cultural exchange."Explain. [CBSE Sept. 2011]
Or
Assess with examples the contribution of food to the process of globalisation of the early periods. [CBSE 2012]

Q 15.

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 16.

How was the income received from trade surplus with India used by Britain ? [CBSE 2008 (D)]

Q 17.

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

Q 18.

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

Q 19.

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

Q 20.

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

Q 21.

Give three examples to show that the world changed with the discovery of new sea routes to America. [CBSE Sept. 2010, 2011, 2012]

Q 22.

Why thousands of people fled Europe for America in the 19th century ?
Or
Why did thousands of people flee away from Europe to America in the 19th century ? Give any three reasons. [CBSE Sept. 2010]

Q 23.

What were silk routes ? [CBSE 2014]

Q 24.

What was the impact of germs on the America's original inhabitants ?

Q 25.

Before the arrival of outsiders most of the Africans had a little reason to work for a wage’. Give reasons.

Q 26.

Why did the inflow of fine Indian cotton begin to decline in the 19th century ?

Q 27.

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

Q 28.

What were the social advantages of invention of refrigerated ships ?

Q 29.

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 30.

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 31.

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

Q 32.

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

Q 33.

What was the impact of industrialisation in Britain on Indian economy ?

Q 34.

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 35.

What is globalisation ? [CBSE Sept. 2011, 2012]

Q 36.

The pre-modem world shrank greatly in the 16th century”. Why ?

Q 37.

How were the indentured workers exploited by the recruiting agents ?

Q 38.

Define ‘trade surplus’. Why Britain had a trade surplus with India ? [CBSE Sept. 2014]

Q 39.

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

Q 40.

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

Q 41.

What is meant by the Bretton Woods Agreement?

Q 42.

What are canal colonies'?

Q 43.

What was the importance of Silk Routes ?
Or
How did Silk Routes link the world ? Explain with three suitable examples. [CBSE 2008 (D)]
Or
Explain any three characteristics of Silk Routes. [CBSE Comp. (D) 2008, Sept. 2010, 2012]
Or
Enumerate the importance of Silk Routes. [CBSE Sept. 2010]

Q 44.

How did Henry Ford revolutionise mass production in the US ? Explain. [CBSE 2012]

Q 45.

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

Q 46.

Mention any two factors which were responsible for price rise of food grains in Britain in the late 18th century.

Q 47.

What at the factors which transformed 19th century world ?

Q 48.

Name any four colonial powers of the 19th century.

Q 49.

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

Q 50.

Name any four regions of India from where indentured workers came.