History

The Making of a Global World

Question:

What is G-77 ?

Answer:

The G-77 is a loose coalition of developing nations, designed to promote its members collective economic interests and create an enhanced joint negotiating capacity for the United Nations. There were 77 founding members, but the organisation has since expanded to 130 member countries.

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The Making of a Global World

Q 1.

Which two crucial influences, shaped post-war reconstruction ?

Q 2.

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

Q 3.

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

Q 4.

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

Q 5.

Why most of the borders of African countries run straight ?

Q 6.

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

Q 7.

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

Q 8.

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

Q 9.

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 10.

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

Q 11.

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

Q 12.

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

Q 13.

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

Q 14.

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

Q 15.

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

Q 16.

What changed the world profoundly in the 19th century ?

Q 17.

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

Q 18.

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

Q 19.

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

Q 20.

What at the factors which transformed 19th century world ?

Q 21.

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]

Q 22.

Mention any four factors responsible for indentured labour.

Q 23.

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

Q 24.

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

Q 25.

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

Q 26.

Write a brief note on the Irish Potato Famine'.

Q 27.

Who discovered America ?

Q 28.

What were the factors which were responsible for the end of the Bretton Woods system ?

Q 29.

Explain indentured labour with lire help of an example.

Q 30.

‘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 31.

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

Q 32.

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

Q 33.

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

Q 34.

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

Q 35.

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 36.

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

Q 37.

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

Q 38.

What is the meaning of ‘cultural fusion’? Give two examples.

Q 39.

What was Hosay ? What was its importance ?

Q 40.

Which was the world's first mass produced car?

Q 41.

What is G-77 ?

Q 42.

Why were the Corn Laws scrapped ? Explain any three reasons.[CBSE Comp. (D) 2008, 2009 (F), Sept. 2011]

Q 43.

Give a brief account on Indian Bankers and Traders.

Q 44.

What is mass production and mass consumption?

Q 45.

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

Q 46.

India played a crucial role in the late 19th century world economy.” Explain by giving an example.
Or
What was the importance of the Indian trade for the Britishers ?
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How did India play a crucial role in the nineteenth century world economy ? Explain with examples. [CBSE Comp. (O) 2008]

Q 47.

Name the countries involved in the First World War.

Q 48.

What were Corn Laws ? Why these Laws were abolished ?

Q 49.

Name any four colonial powers of the 19th century.

Q 50.

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