( 1 ) T(5th Sm.)-History-G/DSE-A-2/CBCS

2020

HISTORY — GENERALPaper : DSE-A-2

(Some Aspects of European History: C 1780-1945)

Full Marks : 65

Candidates are required to give their answers in their own wordsas far as practicable.

Day 1

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( 2 )T(5th Sm.)-History-G/DSE-A-2/CBCS

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The figures in the margin indicate full marks.

Group - A

1. Answer the following questions : 1×15

(a) Mention any one tax prevalent in the pre-revolutionary France.

(b) Who was Rousseau?

(c) When was the Tennis Court Oath taken?

(d) When was the Treaty of Tilsit signed?

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(e) Who ruled for ‘One Hundred Days’?

(f) When was the July Monarchy established in France?

(g) Who was the founder of the ‘Young Italy’?

(h) Who was Louis Kossuth?

(i) When was the battle of Sedan fought?

(j) Who wrote the ‘Communist Manifesto’?

(k) Who adopted the policy of ‘Welt Politik’?

(l) When did the murder of Serajevo occur?

(m) Who drew up the ‘Fourteen Points’?

(n) Who was Mussolini?

(o) When did Hitler come to power in Germany?

Group - B

2. Answer any four questions : 5×4

(a) Who were the Girondins and the Jacobins?

(b) Write a short note on Code Napoleon.

(c) Discuss the importance of July Revolution in France.

(d) How would you explain the ‘Blood and Iron’ policy?

(e) What is meant by the term ‘Utopian Socialism’?

(f) How did the territorial clauses of the Treaty of Versailles affect Germany?

(g) What is meant by Nazism?

(h) Briefly describe the background of the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression pact.

Group - C

3. Answer any three questions : 10×3

(a) How far were the philosophers responsible for the French Revolution of 1789?

(b) How far was the Continental System responsible for the downfall of Napoleon?

(c) Discuss the causes of February Revolution in France.

(d) Write a short essay on the history of the unification of Italy.

(e) How far Germany was responsible for the outbreak of the First World War?

(f) How far was Hitler’s foreign policy responsible for the Second World War?