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COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR THE POST(s) OF BCS (EB) OFFICER B-17 / SECTION OFFICER B-17
EUROPEAN HISTORY
Total Marks:150 Friday, February 13, 2009 Time Allowed: 03 Hours
Note: Attempt any Five questions. All questions carry equal marks.
Q-1 Discuss the outstanding characteristics of European Society in the 18th Century. Why is it regarded as the “Age of Reason”?
Q-2 Discuss briefly the chief personalities of the French Revolution and their overall contribution.
Q-3 Compare and contrast the significance of the Revolutions of 1830 with that of 1848.
Q-4 To what extent is it true to say that the methods employed to unify Germany and Italy were identical?
Q-5 Discuss the essentials of socialism, its growth in Germany and Bismarck reaction towards the Socialists.
Q-6 Discuss exhaustively the importance of Industrial Revolution to the mankind as a whole.
Q-7 “The most important and single factor in European affairs in the year following 1919 was the French demand for security” (Carr). Discuss.
Q-8 What in your opinion were the main difficulties in the way of agreement between Britain, France and Russia in the year 1939?
Q-9 The establishment of United Nations is a great achievement of mankind. Discuss.
Q-10 Give a brief account of the efforts of U.S.S.R. to spread its influence in the Eastern Europe and Asia after the Second World War till 1960.
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