What was the impact of the Great Depression on USA ? Explain. [CBSE 2013]
(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.
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)
Name the economist who thought that India gold exports during the Great Depression of 1929 promoted global economic recovery.
Name any two countries which became major supplier of wheat during the First World War.
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.
Highlight three main features of life of African people before the coming of Europeans. [CBSE 2013]
‘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]
Explain the consequences of the Second World War.
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Describe in brief the destruction caused during the Second World War. [CBSE 2010 (O), Sept. 2012]
Name any two world institutions which were established under the Bretton Woods. Also mention one objective of each. [CBSE 2014]
Explain how the global transfer of disease in the pre-modern world helped in the colonisation of the Americas.
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.
What was the importance of Silk Routes ?
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How did Silk Routes link the world ? Explain with three suitable examples. [CBSE 2008 (D)]
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Explain any three characteristics of Silk Routes. [CBSE Comp. (D) 2008, Sept. 2010, 2012]
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Enumerate the importance of Silk Routes. [CBSE Sept. 2010]
The agricultural regions and communities were the worst affected by the Great Depression of 1929'. Give one reason.
Why China and other Asian countries became attractive destination for investment by foreign MNC's ?
India played a crucial role in the late 19th century world economy”. Explain. [CBSE 2014]
Name any two Indian groups of bankers who financed export agriculture in Central and South-east Asia.
"Food offers many examples of long distance cultural exchange."Explain. [CBSE Sept. 2011]
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Assess with examples the contribution of food to the process of globalisation of the early periods. [CBSE 2012]
What steps were taken by the British government to improve agriculture in West Punjab ?
Before the arrival of outsiders most of the Africans had a little reason to work for a wage’. Give reasons.