History

The Making of a Global World

Question:

Name the countries which wore exporting food grains to Britain.

Answer:

Russia, America and Australia.

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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.

Which was the world's first mass produced car?

Q 3.

Mention any four factors responsible for indentured labour.

Q 4.

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 5.

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

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

Q 8.

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

Q 9.

Write a short note on Sir Henry Morton Stanley.

Q 10.

Give a brief account on Indian Bankers and Traders.

Q 11.

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

Q 12.

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

Q 13.

What were Corn Laws ? Why these Laws were abolished ?

Q 14.

Who was indentured labourer ?

Q 15.

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

Q 16.

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 17.

Who discovered America ?

Q 18.

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

Q 19.

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

Q 20.

Which two crucial influences, shaped post-war reconstruction ?

Q 21.

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

Q 22.

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 23.

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

Q 24.

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

Q 25.

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

Q 26.

‘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 27.

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

Q 28.

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

Q 29.

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

Q 30.

What were the main destinations of Indian indentured migrants ?

Q 31.

What is G-77 ?

Q 32.

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

Q 33.

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

Q 34.

What were the social advantages of invention of refrigerated ships ?

Q 35.

Explain how the global transfer of disease in the pre-modern world helped in the colonisation of the Americas.

Q 36.

Explain indentured labour with lire help of an example.

Q 37.

Till the 1870's meat was an expensive luxury beyond the reach of the European poor”. Give reason.

Q 38.

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

Q 39.

What was Henry Ford's best cost cutting decision ?

Q 40.

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

Q 41.

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

Q 42.

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 43.

Explain the social and economic impacts of the First World War. Suggest any two ways to save the world from the Third World War.
Or
"The First World War was mainly fought in Europe but its impact was felt around the world."Explain by giving examples.
Or
What was the impact of the First World War on the socio-economic conditions of the world ? Write four points. [CBSE Sept. 2010, 2011]

Q 44.

By 1890, a global agricultural economy had taken shape.' Explain by giving example.
Or
Describe any three changes in the global agricultural economy after 1890. [CBSE 2014]

Q 45.

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

Q 46.

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

Q 47.

What were silk routes ? [CBSE 2014]

Q 48.

Name any four colonial powers of the 19th century.

Q 49.

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

Q 50.

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