1. Thomas Paine, wrote the pamphlet titled Common Sense (1776).
2. In this pamphlet Paine sought to provide arguments to justify the demands of the colonists.
3. The pamphlet had an astounding impact of people.

1. The Nazi state of Hitler, known as the Third Reich.
2. It brought an end to the parliamentary democracy.
3. As a result Germany was converted into a highly centralised state.

1. The Bulgarians felt injured and awaited an opportunity to take revenge on Serbia.
2. The passions of the Serbians were inflamed by victory.
3. Anti-Austrian struggle in Serbia and Bosnia became ever more militant.

1. The General Assembly at the initiative of US passed the 'Uniting for Peace resolution'.
2. This clearly set the precedent that if the Security Council could not reach an agreement to intervene in a crisis, then the General Assembly should meet in emergency session and reconned the use of armed force if necessary.
3. USSR regarded this resolution as illegal.
4. The fighting ended with the signing of an armistice in July 1953.

(i) Pope Paul III appointed the cardinals to reform the Catholic Church.
(ii) The Council of Trent met three times in eighteen years and emphasised faith in the Bible - and the teachings at Church along with adherence to the seven sacraments for salvation.
(iii) The celibacy of the priests and the supremacy of the Pope were upheld.
(iv) The council also removed the abuses in the Church such as sale of indulgence, nepotism and absenteeism of the Bishops.
(v) It supported the image worship of Jesus and Mary in all churches.

1. Florence is one of the city states in Italy which was influenced by a powerful merchant family called medici.
2. Cosimo de Medici who was engaged in banking with many branches across Italy had indirect control over the functioning of the government between 1434 and 1464.
3. After his death, his grandson Lorenzo took over and controlled the government. He was known as Lorenzo, the Magnificent.
4. During this period, the Medici family patronised many artists including Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci.

1. It worked for the preservation of European order and balance of power.
2. They intervened in the case of countries threatened by internal rebellion.
3. They Imposed their overall decision on the affected countries.

1. Dutch recognised Java and Sumatra as independent republican states.
2. Other islands were united and thus the Indonesian United States was formed.
3. Subsequently, the Dutch attempted to twice to disrupt peace in Indonesia.

1. In Disarmament Conference, The issue was the German rearmament plan on a par with France.
2. The French refused to agree to this proposal.
3. As a result, Germany withdrew from the League of Nations.

Rajendra Prasad, Mazharul Huq, Acharya Kripalani and Mahadeva Desai.

She published a book How India brought for Freedom, a weekly The Commonweal, a daily newspaper New India.

1) The British fixed the land revenue in cash without any regard to various contingencies, such as failure of crops, fall in prices and droughts or floods.
2) Moreover, the practice of sale in settlement of debt encouraged money lenders to advance money to landholders and resorting to every kind of trickery to rob them of their property.

Bhagat Singh along with Rajguru; Sukhdev, Jatindra Nath Das and 21 others were arrested and tried for the murder of Saunders (the case was known as the Second Lahore Conspiracy Case).

The backwardness of agriculture could be attributed to two factors: institutional and technological.
(i) Institutional factors refer to the social and economic relations that prevailed, particularly between the land-owning classes and the cultivating classes. 
(ii) Technological factors relate to use of better seeds, improved methods of cultivation, use of chemical fertilizers, use of machinery like tractors and harvester combines, and provision of irrigation.

1) Patel had been negotiating with the Maharaja of Kashmir since 1946, Hari Singh was opposed to accession.
2) However, in a few months after independence - in October 1947 - marauders from Pakistan raided Kashmir and there was no way that Maharaja Hari Singh could resist this attack on his own. Before India went to his rescue the Instrument of Accession was signed by him at the instance of Patel.
3) Thus Kashmir too became an integral part of the Indian Union.

The viceroy issued invitations on 151 June 1946 to the 14 men to join the interim government. Among them,
1. Mohammed Ali Jinnah,
2. Liaquat Ali Khan,
3. Mohammed Ismail Khan,
4. Khwaja Sir Nazimuddin and
5. Abdul Rab Nishtar,
were the Muslim League representatives invited to the Interim Government.

Centrally organized political parties exclusively for Muslims, had the following objectives:
1) To promote among the Muslims of India feelings of loyalty to the British Government, and remove any misconception that may arise as to the instruction of Government with regard to any of its measures.
2) To protect and advance the political rights and interests of Muslims of India, and to respectfully represent their needs and aspirations to the Government.
3) To prevent the rise among the Muslims of India of any feeling of hostility towards other communities without prejudice to the aforementioned objects of the League.