pyq/2018/history-optional-ii/5

Critically examine the following statements in about 150 words each: (10x5=50)

(a) "With the writings of Karl Marx, Socialism assumed the form of Scientific Socialism."

(b) "The American War of Independence transformed Europe as well as America."

(c) "The Industrial Revolution put mobility in the place of stability."

(d) At the end of the Battle of Sedan (1870), "Europe lost a mistress and gained a master".

(e) "Until December 1941, the battlefield of the Second World War was exclusively European and Atlantic; thereafter it became also Asiatic and Pacific."