CSS European History Past Paper 2011
Paper-I
PART-2(Subjective) 80 Marks
Attempt ONLY FOUR questions from PART-II. (20×4)
PART-II
Q.2. Why did Britain experience an economic revolution without serious political upheaval in the 1800s? Discuss.
Q.3. Do you think the French Revolution was inevitable? Defend your opinion.
Q.4. What were the roles of the major European powers in the Eastern Question? Did any one of them have an effective answer to the Eastern Question? Discuss.
Q.5. How did the rise of nationalism in Europe threaten the Russian and Austrian empires? Discuss.
Q.6. How did the socio-economic transformation of Europe post-1815 contribute to expansionism abroad? Are there any broader lessons to be learned from the phenomenon of European imperialism?
Q.7. Define progress. Do you think that the nineteenth century was an age of progress? Defend your opinion with reference to the history of the period.
Q.8. Compare the foreign policy of Bismarck from 1871 and 1890 to the foreign policy of the Kaiser between 1890 and 1914. Critically evaluate the similarities and differences.
Paper-II
PART-2(Subjective) 80 Marks
Attempt ONLY FOUR questions from PART-II. (20×4)
PART-II
Q.2. Why did the Versailles settlement prove to be “a ceasefire for twenty years”? Analyze.
Q.3. How would history have unfolded differently if Nazi Germany and its allies had emerged victorious in the Second World War? Discuss.
Q.4. Was the rapid industrialization of the USSR worth the human cost of Stalinism? Develop and defend your opinion.
Q.5. How did US and Soviet misperceptions of each other lead to the Cold War? Discuss.
Q.6. Does the history of the period 1914-1960 offer any basis for optimism with regard to the prospects of world peace? Discuss.
Q.7. What are the major differences between Mussolini’s Fascism and Hitler’s Nazism? Discuss.
Q.8. How did the rise of the United States of America affect the outcome of major conflicts between 1914 and 1945? Discuss.