HIST/VI/09 (PR Student's Copy
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6th Semester
HISTORY
NINTH PAPER
Modern World History
Pre-revised and Revised
Full Marks 75
Time 3 hours
PART A—OBJECTIVE
Marks 25
The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions
SECTION—A
Marks 10
Tick the correct answer in the brackets provided 1×10=10
1. In general, European serfdom
was an obstacle to the commercialization of agriculture
disappeared across Eastern Europe and Russia by 1800
provided vast incentives for landowners to improve farming
techniques
Both and
2. Queen Victoria was a successful queen because
she and her husband embodied traits important to the middle
classes
her name has come to represent the culture of the nineteenth
century
her court was in all respects similar to her uncle, George IV
she managed to extol the virtues of the aristocracy at the moment they
went into decline
/434 1 Contd.
3. Orientalism refers to
early 19th century artistic and cultural developmets in the Ottoman
Empire
the heightened European interest in the East, specifically
Egypt
cultural nationalism in China and Japan
study of Indian literature
4. If any one word described Otto von Bismarck, that word was
nationalist
liberal
Prussian
None of the above
5. During the Boer War, the British first insinuated
firing squads
concentration camp
barbed wire
None of the above
6. In 1908, the nationalists in the Ottoman Empire known as 'Young Turks'
forced the Sultan to
declare war on Russia
invade and recapture Bulgaria
establish a constitutional government
ally with Britain and France
7. One weapon that added a frightening dimension to daily warfare was
poison gas
machine guns
the tank
barbed wire
HIST/VI/09 (PR R)/434 2 Contd.
8. What event pushed Weimar's political system to the breaking point?
The Dawes Plan
The Great Depression
The French Invasion of the Ruhr, Hitler's Putsch of 1923
None of the above
9. Following the naval evacuation of British and French troops at Dunkirk,
the Germans invaded
Poland
Britain
France
Scandinavia
10. Josip Broz or Tito was a
Hungarian leader who created a Nazi Puppet State
leader of the Ustasha, the Croatian fascist guard
Communist leader of the Yugoslav Resistance Movement
Romanian General who transported Hungarian Jews to Nazi death
camps
SECTION—B
Marks 15
Give short answers to any five of the following questions 3×5=15
1. Who were the Navvies?
2. Historians now attribute the population growth of the nineteenth century
to rising fertility rather than to falling mortality. Why?
3. What was the Communist Manifesto about?
4. Mention the Napoleonic Code's Provisions on the family.
5. Projects such as the Suez Canal changed literally the landscape and the
map of the world. Why?
HIST/VI/09 (PR R)/434 3 Contd.
6. How did the major European powers conquer and colonize Africa with
astonishing speed?
7. Mention the roles played by women in the First World War.
8. What do you know about the Wilson's Fourteen Points?
9. Why did thousands of foreign fighters join the Spanish Civil War?
10. How did Hitler take advantage of international tolerance and war weariness
to advance his ambitions?
PART B—DESCRIPTIVE
Marks 50
The questions are of equal value
1. What were the effects of the Industrial Revolution?
OR
Describe the environmental pollution brought by the Industrial Revolution.
2. Give an account for the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte to power.
OR
Discuss the Unification of Italy.
3. Define the meaning of colonialism and imperialism in the nineteenth
century.
OR
Trace the growth of labour movements in the late nineteenth century.
4. Describe the causes of the Russian Revolution of 1917.
OR
Give an account of the rise of Nazism under Hitler in Germany.
5. What was the holocaust? What role did the Nazis play in it?
OR
Discuss the causes that led to the outbreak of the Second World War.