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Imperialism and its Onslaught 1 Mark Creative Question Paper With Answer Key

12th Standard

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History

Time : 00:15:00 Hrs
Total Marks : 14

    Multiple Choice Question

    14 x 1 = 14
  1.  Match the following and select the answer from the code given below.

    (A) New Christianity 1. William Lovett
    (B) A New View of Society  2. Louis Blanc
    (C) Revue du Progres 3. Saint Simon
    (D) The People’s Charter 4. Robert Owen
    (a)

    2, 3, 4, 1

    (b)

    3, 4, 2, 1

    (c)

    1, 4, 3, 2

    (d)

    3, 1, 2, 4

  2. The __________ was a period of accumulation of capital that facilitated the industrial revolution in Europe.

    (a)

    Mercantilist period

    (b)

    European period

    (c)

    industrial period

    (d)

    revolution period

  3. ____________a word coined by a French businessman named de Goumay, became the cry everywhere.

    (a)

    Laissez-faire

    (b)

    Marshall Plan

    (c)

    Moltov Plan

    (d)

    military pacts

  4. Assertion(A): New weapons such as breech-loading rifles and Gatling machine guns gave European armies the decisive edge in most of the battles.
    Reason(R): The attempts to carve out colonies in Africa, as happened else where, involved them in bloody battles in which the indigenous people lost.

    (a)

    A and R are correct. R explains A

    (b)

    A and R are correct but R does not explain A

    (c)

    A is correct but R is wrong

    (d)

    A is wrong and R is correct

  5. Statement I: Two major financial crashes, one in Vienna and the other in New York, led to a full blown economic depression in Europe and America in the mid-1870s.
    Statement II: The depression severely affected production, prices and wages.
    Statement III: Cheap grain flooded the markets of western European nations affecting the domestic producers who suffered due to fall in prices.
    Statement IV: People began to question the wisdom of free trade policies.

    (a)

    I,II,III

    (b)

    I,II,III

    (c)

    I,III,IV

    (d)

    All are Correct

  6. The _________ in Cambrai, France, was significant for the first use of tanks by the British on a large scale.

    (a)

    Battle of Cambrai

    (b)

    Naval battles

    (c)

    Franco-Prussian War

    (d)

    Hall of Mirrors

  7. _________ ended when the German government authorised unrestricted submarine warfare to combat the Allied naval blockade.

    (a)

    Battle of Cambrai

    (b)

    Naval battles

    (c)

    Franco-Prussian War

    (d)

    Hall of Mirrors

  8. The objective of France was to recover Alsace and Lorraine that it had lost after the___________

    (a)

    Battle of Cambrai

    (b)

    Naval battles

    (c)

    Franco-Prussian War

    (d)

    Hall of Mirrors

  9. The ____________also had an ambition of adding mineral-rich Morocco to their African empire

    (a)

    Russia

    (b)

    Turkey

    (c)

    America

    (d)

    French

  10. On 28 June 1919 the peace treaty was signed in the _________ at Versailles.

    (a)

    Battle of Cambrai

    (b)

    Naval battles

    (c)

    Franco-Prussian War

    (d)

    Hall of Mirrors

  11. Match the following:
    a) Austria          -Treaty of St. Germain
    b) Hungary        -Treaty of Trianon
    c) Bulgaria        - Treaty of Neuilly
    d) Turkey          - Treaty of Sevres

    (a)

    1,3,4,2

    (b)

    1,3,2,4

    (c)

    1,4,3,2

    (d)

    1,2,3,4

  12. _________was basically a peasant society.

    (a)

    Russia

    (b)

    Turkey

    (c)

    America

    (d)

    France

  13. _____________represented a revolt against the established social order.

    (a)

    Fascism

    (b)

    Nihilism

    (c)

    Nazism

    (d)

    none

  14. Pravda is a Russian word meaning_____________.

    (a)

    Truth

    (b)

    Lie

    (c)

    Fraud

    (d)

    none

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