The World After World War II

Q. What were the features of the Cold War?

1. The Cold War was a fight between two ideologies, communism and capitalism.
2. They pulled other countries into fighting their proxy war.
3. The Cold War took the form of a weapons race.
4. Technology was utilised to the extent of militarising for space wars and developing intelligence agencies in their own countries.

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Who wrote the book planned economy for India?

1. Mahatma Gandhi

2. Sardar Vallabhai Patel

3. M. Visvesvaraya

4. Jawaharlal Nehru

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What do you mean by normal and abnormal loss?

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The concept of Economic planning in India is derived from ________. (1) Russia (2) Australia (3) USA (4) UK

Q. What does CENTO stand for?

1. Central Territory Organisation
2. Central Eastern National Treaty Organisation
3. Central Treaty Organisation
4. Command Territory Organisation

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Who Was the Successor of Lenin

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What are the causes of abnormal loss?

Q. The Japanese attack on led the US to join the Second World War.

1. American colonies
2. Hawaii
3. Pearl Harbour

Q. Cold war is a/an war fought between the USA and the USSR from 1945 till the disintegration of the USSR in 1991.

1. hidden
2. aggressive
3. ideological

Q. Assertion [A]: The USSR weakened and disintegrated into 15 new states, and Russia is one among them. The Cold War thus came to an end with the fall of the USSR.

Reason [R]: Liberal policies like Glasnost and Perestroika that were introduced in 1987 by Mikhail Gorbachev diluted the power of the Communist Party in the USSR.

1. [A] and [R] are true but [R] is not the correct justification for [A].
2. [A] is true but [R] is false.
3. [A] and [R] are true and [R] is the correct justification for [A].
4. [A] and [R] are false.

Q. Which of the following were proxy wars fought during the Cold War?

1. Korean War
2. Cuban Missile Crisis
3. Yugoslav Wars
4. Vietnam War

Q. _____ became the president of USSR after Lenin's demise.

1. Rasputin
2. Vladimir Lenin
3. Mikhail Gorbachev
4. Joseph Stalin

Q. The Cold War was a fight between ____ and _____.

1. USA, USSR
2. Socialism, Communism
3. Japan, USA
4. Communism, Capitalism

Q. Why did the US stay away from the Second World War initially?

1. People suffered a lot from poverty, hunger and unemployment.
2. The US was experiencing Great Depression which collapsed their economy in 1929.
3. The US wanted to grow into a superpower so they wanted to stay away from the war.
4. The Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbour caused massive destruction to their naval fleets.

Q. _______ and _______ were liberal policies introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev that diluted the power of the Communist Party in the USSR.

1. Rossiyskaya, Federatsiya
2. Perestroika, Demokratiya
3. Demokratiya, Glasnost
4. Glasnost, Perestroika

Q. Why was the war between the USA and the USSR after 1945 called the Cold War?

1. Because it was a fight between two superpowers.
2. Because no actual war happened between the US and the USSR.
3. Because it was a nuclear race.
4. Because it was a fight between communism and capitalism.

Q. A Five Year Plan is a/an that laid down the and the goals of a country to be achieved in the forthcoming five years.

1. law
2. set of principles
3. objectives
4. economic policy

Q. First Five year Plan was presented by _______.

1. Jawahar Lal Nehru
2. K C Pant
3. B B Pant
4. N D Tiwari

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Note on kalpana chawla

Q. The Cold War came to an end with the fall of the USSR.

1. False
2. True

Q. Which of the following statements is correct regarding the war on Pearl Harbour?
i. Japan attacked Pearl Harbour.
ii. After the attack on Pearl Harbour made Hitler declare war on USA.
iii. In return US attacked Japan with the nuclear bombs.

1. i & ii
2. ii & iii
3. none of the above
4. all the above

Q. What is the name of the organisation that formulates the Five year plans in India?

Q. Select all the proxy wars from the following.(CMC= Cuban Missile Crisis)

1. World War I
2. Russian civil war
3. CMC
4. Suez Canal crisis
5. Berlin crisis
6. The Vietnam War
7. Syrian Civil War
8. The Korean War

Q. Describe the proxy wars.