History

The Making of a Global World

Question:

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

Answer:

Britain’s trade surplus in India also helped to pay the so-called ‘home charges’ that included private remittances home by British officials and traders, interest payments on India’s external debt and pensions of British officials in India.

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The Making of a Global World

Q 1.

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

Q 2.

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

Q 3.

Which two crucial influences, shaped post-war reconstruction ?

Q 4.

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

Q 5.

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

Q 6.

‘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 7.

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

Q 8.

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

Q 9.

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

Q 10.

"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 11.

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 12.

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

Q 13.

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

Q 14.

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

Q 15.

Name any four colonial powers of the 19th century.

Q 16.

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)
Or
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 17.

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 18.

Define Rinderpest. [CBSE Sept. 2010, 2011, 2012]

Q 19.

What changed the world profoundly in the 19th century ?

Q 20.

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

Q 21.

What at the factors which transformed 19th century world ?

Q 22.

What was Henry Ford's best cost cutting decision ?

Q 23.

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

Q 24.

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

Q 25.

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

Q 26.

Mention any four factors responsible for indentured labour.

Q 27.

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

Q 28.

What were silk routes ? [CBSE 2014]

Q 29.

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

Q 30.

Why most of the borders of African countries run straight ?

Q 31.

Who was indentured labourer ?

Q 32.

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

Q 33.

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

Q 34.

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

Q 35.

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 36.

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

Q 37.

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

Q 38.

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

Q 39.

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

Q 40.

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

Q 41.

What were the main destinations of Indian indentured migrants ?

Q 42.

How were the indentured workers exploited by the recruiting agents ?

Q 43.

The agricultural regions and communities were the worst affected by the Great Depression of 1929'. Give one reason.

Q 44.

What is meant by the Bretton Woods Agreement ? Explain. [CBSE Sept. 2010. 2011]

Q 45.

G-77 can be seen as a reaction to the activities of Bretton Woods Twins. Explain the statement with five arguments.  [CBSE 2013]

Q 46.

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

Q 47.

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

Q 48.

What was mass production ? Who was pioneer of mass production ? [CBSE 2014]

Q 49.

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

Q 50.

What is G-77 ?