Time allowed: 3 hours
Max marks:100

Attempt total FIVE questions. All questions carry equal marks.

1. Revolutions often start in the streets but are completed in Legislatures. Elucidate in the light of the Fall of Bastille and its impact on the work of National Assembly in France in 1789.

2. How fa Napoleon Bonaparte is justified in calling himself "the son of French Revolution"? Do you think he was the savior or the destroyer of the Revolution?

3. Give a critical analysis of the aims, principles, and the major decisions taken at the Congress of Vienna in 1814-15. Do you think that the French Revolution died at Vienna?

4. "The great questions of the day will be settled not by the votes of the majority ... but by blood and iron."Elucidate in the light of events leading to the Unification of Germany.

5. How the national interests of various European powers got them entangled in the Crimean War? Do you agree that it was a futile war?

6. Estimate the role of the following in Italian Unification and point out the chief architect of Italian Unity among these:
a) Carbonari
b) Garibaldi
c) Napoleon III
d) Count Cavor

7. Highlight the major factors in the rise of Socialism in 19th century Europe and discuss why a socialist revolution did not erupt in the industrialized western European countries like England.

8. Do you think that the World War I could have been avoided if Archduke Franz Ferdinand was not killed in June 1914? Give arguments.

Time allowed: 3 hours
Max marks:100

Attempt total FIVE questions. All questions carry equal marks.

1. Wilson's Fourteen Points became a disappointment. Comment

2. The Treaty of Versailles (1919) contained the germs of Second World War. Discuss.

3. Explain the factors which led to the rise of Mussolini in Italy.

4. The beginning of Great Depression (1929) in America influenced the whole European World. Discuss.

5. Explain the "Lebensraum" (expansionist) policy of Adolf Hitler in Europe.

6. Discuss the role of the United Nations as a peace keeping force in the world.

7. De Crantle's policies established the French state on strong footings after the Second World War. Comment.

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