History

The Making of a Global World

Question:

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

Answer:

Economic stability and full employment.

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The Making of a Global World

Q 1.

Which two crucial influences, shaped post-war reconstruction ?

Q 2.

What is NIF.O ?
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Why did Group 77 countries demand a New International Economic Order ? Explain. [CBSE 2009 (D). Sept, 2010]
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Why did most of the developing countries organise themselves as a group the Group of 77 (G-77) ? [CBSE 2012)

Q 3.

Which two countries were among the world's richest until the 18th century ?

Q 4.

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

Q 5.

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

Q 6.

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

Q 7.

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

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.
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Explain how the First World War was so horrible a war like none other before. [CBSE 2010 (0)]
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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]
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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 was the income received from trade surplus with India used by Britain ? [CBSE 2008 (D)]

Q 40.

What was Henry Ford's best cost cutting decision ?

Q 41.

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

Q 42.

What is G-77 ?

Q 43.

What is meant by the Bretton Woods Agreement?

Q 44.

Write a brief note on the Irish Potato Famine'.

Q 45.

Write a short note on Sir Henry Morton Stanley.

Q 46.

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 47.

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

Q 48.

Explain indentured labour with lire help of an example.

Q 49.

Why did the European employers find it difficult to recruit labour in Africa ? Give two methods they used to recruit and retain labour. [CBSE 2011)
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Why was there a shortage of labour willing to work for wages in Africa in the 1890s ? How did Europeans try to recruit and retain labour ? Explain any two methods. [CBSE 2012]
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What methods were used by the European employers to recruit and retain the African labourers ?

Q 50.

What was mass production? Explain its impact on the world economy of earlier 20th century.