European History KP PMS Paper I 2010

KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, PESHAWAR
SUBJECT: COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR THE POSTS OF PROVINCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICE (BPS-17) 2010
EUROPEAN HISTORY PAPER-I
Time Allowed: 03 hours Max. Marks: 100
Q1. 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.
Q2. How far 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?
Q3. 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?
Q4. “The Great questions of the day will be settled not by the speeches and votes of majority… but by blood and iron” Elucidate in the light of events leading to the UNIFICATION of GERMANY.
Q5. How the national interests of various European powers got them entangled in the CRIMEAN WAR. Do you agree that it was a futile war?
Q6. Estimate the role of the following in ITALIAN UNIFICATION, and point out the chief architect of Italian Unity among them:
(a) Carbonari (b) Garibaldi (c) Napoleon III (d) Count Cavour
Q7. 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.
Q8. Do you think that the World War I could have been avoided if Archduke Franz Ferdinand was not killed in June 1914? Give Arguments.
Would you like me to help you draft comprehensive arguments or outline essay structures for either of these European History questions?
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