Time.....3 hours
Maximum marks....100
Paper 1

Atempt only five questions....

Q.1 What do you know about the "Reign of Terror" and its significance during the French Revolution.

Q.2 Why Napoleon Bonaparte adopted the Continental System and how it led to the downfall of his empire?

Q.3 The events of 1848 demonstrated the resilience of the old order.Discuss.

Q.4 The years from 1848 to 1880 were about the creation of a Europe of nation-states.Elucidates.

Q.5 Was Nationalism more of a menace or an advantage to establish governments between 1871 and 1914?

Q.6 Why did the pace of European colonial expansionisn accelerate in the last decades of the nineteenth century?

Q.7 How serious a threat to the Bourgeois order was the rise of socialism as a political force before 1914?

Time....3 hours
Marks...100
Paper 2

Atempt any five questions. All questions carry Equal marks.

Q.1 What were the social, political and economic consequences of the World War 1 for Europe?

Q.2 Discuss and elaborate causes of the success of the Bolsheviks against their adversaries during the Russian Revolution of 1917.

Q.3 The Paris Peace settlement produced more troubles in Europe than it solved. Expain.

Q.4 Critically analyze Adolf Hitler foreign policy up to the Second World War.

Q.5 Compare and contrast the policies of the USA and of the USSR towards Europe between 1945 and 1956?

Q. 6 Post Second World War European movement was a milestone in the history of Europe. Do you agree or not? Give your arguments.

Q.7 Write only on the two of the following:

a) Yalta Conference
b) Warsaw Pact
c) Fascism
d) Capitalism