CUET (UG) entrance exam Question Bank Solutions for Political Science

After Independence, our country had to face several challenges. Consider the following statements regarding these challenges-

1. All Muslim majority areas wanted to join Pakistan in accordance with the popular 'TwoNation Theory' as given by the Muslim league.
2. Muslim majority areas of British India were concentrated ·in different pockets.
3. Muslim majority provinces were to be separated on the basis of religion and language.

Choose the incorrect statements.

Which of the following statements are correct regarding cold war period?

1. Cold War gave birth to Eastern Alliance known as Warsaw Pact headed by the Soviet Union in 1955 with the principal function to counter NATO's forces.
2. Cold War divided the world into two divisions namely Western and Eastern alliances as well as SEATO and CENTO.
3. The mad arms race had taken to manufacture atom-bomb and nuclear weapons by all countries of the world.
4. Cold War created the Western Alliance known as NATO in April 1949 by the association of twelve states.

Where was the 'Tryst with Destiny' speech delivered by Pt. Nehru?  

During the 1940s in India, there were many political developments that led to the decision the creation of Pakistan.

prominent among them were:

1. The political competition between the Congress and the Muslim League was taking place. The Congress wanted to make a nation that reflects a democratic government, whereas the Muslim League. propounded Two-Nation Theory to gain power and status for minority communities in politics.
2. The British were also playing their role of' divide and rule policy and accepted the Two-Nation Theory for the partition of India. Thus, in 1947 the two-nation i.e. India and Pakistan came into existence.

Which of the following is true regard them:  

While the rest of the country was reorganised on linguistic lines in the 1950s, Punjab had to wait till 1966. Which of the following is true in the context of this statement? 

Which of the following challenge/s of nation-building were successfully negotiated in the first decade after 1947?

1. Freedom came with Partition, which resulted in large-scale violence and displacement and challenged the very idea of a secular India.
2. The integration of the princely states into the Indian union needed urgent resolution.
3. The internal boundaries of the country needed to be drawn afresh to meet the aspiration8 of the people who spoke different languages.  

Who addressed a special session of the Constituent Assembly on 14-15 August 1947 at midnight?

Broadly, independent India faced three kinds of challenges. Which of the following is true about these challenges? 

We should begin to work in that spirit and in course of time all these angularities of the majority and minority communities, the Hindu community and the Muslim community- because even as regards Muslims you have Pathans, Punjabis, Shias, Sunnis and .so on and among the Hindus, you have Brahmins, Vaishnavas, Khatris, also Bengalees, Madrasis, and so on - will vanish" ......

Who said these lines? 

Who said "Today I call Waris Shah"? 

"We have a Muslim minority who are so large in numbers that they cannot, even if they want, go anywhere else. That is a basic fact about which there can be no argument. Whatever the provocation from Pakistan and whatever the indignities and horrors inflicted on non-Muslims there, we have got to deal with this minority in a civilized manner".

Who said this line?    

The Berlin Wall, which had been built at the height of the Cold War and was its greatest symbol, was toppled by the people in?

The end of the Cold War marked the end of ______

The New World Order was ______

Which one of the following is the correct full form of CTBT?

The term 'partisan' means:

A recognised political party is- 

The collapse of the Berlin Wall unified the ______

During Cold War Era there had been many important events. Arrange these events in the correct sequence.

1. Korean War resulted in the division of Korea
2. The signing of the Baghdad Pact
3. American Intervention in Vietnam
4. Cuban Missile Crisis
5. Formation of SEATO

Which one of the following statements about the Berlin Wall is incorrect?