pyq/2024/history-optional-ii/5

Critically examine the following statements in about 150 words each: (10×5=50 marks)

(a) The ideas raised by Enlightenment thinkers were profoundly unsettling and challenging to old regime society and political order. (10 marks, 150 words)

(b) The American Civil War was a result of disparity of needs of industrial north and agrarian south. (10 marks, 150 words)

(c) The unification of Germany was as much a product of coal and iron as it was of blood and iron. (10 marks, 150 words)

(d) The new regime in China addressed the peasant question by instituting wholesale land redistribution, which was carried out swiftly and ruthlessly. (10 marks, 150 words)

(e) The revolutions of 1989 did not simply destroy governments; they also ended an ideology. (10 marks, 150 words)