CUET Political Science Previous Year Solved Paper 1 (15 July 2022 Slot-1) - Humanities/Arts MCQ

The founders of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) were Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Nasser of Egypt, Sukarno of Indonesia and Tito of Yugoslavia. 

The western alliance was formalised into an organisation, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), which came into existence in April 1949.

NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT) Allows only the nuclear weapon states to have nuclear weapons and stops others from aquiring them. For the purposes of the NPT, a nuclear weapon state is one which has manufactured and exploded a nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive device prior to 1 January 1967. So there are five nuclear weapon states: US, USSR (later Russia), Britain, France and China. Signed in Washington, London, and Moscow on 1 July 1968.Entered into force on 5 March 1970.Extended indefinitely in 1995.

First of all, it meant the end of Cold War confrontations. The ideological dispute over whether the socialist system would beat the capitalist system was not an issue any more.

Shock therapy influenced by World bank and IMF

 The first gulf war are also known as Operation desert storm.

US presidenc y by George W. Bush of the Republican Party, son of the earlier President George H. W. Bush. Unlike Clinton, Bush had a much harder view of US interests and of the means by which to advance them. As a part of its ‘Global War on Terror’, the US launched ‘Operation Enduring Freedom’

China followed its own path in introducing a market economy. The Chinese did not go for ‘shock therapy’ but opened their economy step by step. The privatisation of agriculture in 1982 was followed by the privatisation of industry in 1998. Trade barriers were eliminated only in
Special Economic Zones (SEZs) where foreign investors could set up enterprises

The collapse of the Sov iet bloc put Europe on a fast track and resulted in the establishment of the European Union in 1992.

China started ‘open door policy’.

CBDR are associated with Kyoto protocol,1997.

The UN def ines indigenous populations as comprising the descendants of peoples who inhabited the present territory of a country at the time when persons of a different culture or ethnic origin arrived there from other parts of the world and overcame them.

1996 December: India and Bangladesh sign the Farakka Treaty for sharing of the Ganga Waters.

International Court of Justice: Fifteen judges elected for nine years by absolute majority in both the General Assembly and the Security Council. Based in The Hague.

On 1 January 1997, the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan initiated an inquiry into how the UN should be reformed.

Red cross is an Non – governmental organization

Terrorism refers to political v iolence that targets civilians deliberately and indiscriminately .

There have been many path-breaking agreements such as the 1959 Antarctic Treaty, the 1987 Montreal Protocol, and the 1991 Antarctic Environmental Protocol.

It is wrong to assume that globalisation has purely economic dimensions, just as it would also be mistaken to assume that it is a purely cultural phenomenon.

At the most simple level, globalisation results in an erosion of state capacity, that is, the ability of government to do what they do.

Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) Successor to Lenin and led the Soviet Union during its consolidation (1924-53); began rapid industrialisation and forcible collectivisation of agriculture; credited with Soviet victory in the Second World War; held responsible for the Great Terror of the 1930s, authoritarian functioning and elimination of rivals within the party.

The National Coordination Committee of railwayman was led  by George Fernades.

Rajkumari amrit kaur was first health minister of India under Nehru cabinet.

The social composition of the State changed first with Partition and later on after the carving out of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (1875-1950): Leader of the freedom movement; Congress leader; follower of Mahatma Gandhi; Deputy Prime Minister and first Home Minister of independent India; played an important role in the integration of Princely States with India; member of important committees of the Constituent Assembly on Fundamental Rights, Minorities, Provincial Constitution, etc.

NITI Aayog was created in the place of Planning commission.

The First summit of NAM was held in Belgrade in September 1961.

The correct answer is Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. On the day of 02 July 1972, Shimla Agreement was signed between Indira Gandhi and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto at Shimla of Himachal Pradesh

Article 51 of the constitution talks about International peace and security.