Study the Cartoon given below and answer the following questions:
(20.1) Why has the bicycle been chosen to represent China.?
(20.2) What do the symbols within the two wheels stand for? Which two economic ideologies do the symbols represent?
(20.3) What message does the cartoon convey?
(20.1) The symbol of the bicycle has been used to represent China because China is the largest user of bicycles in the world.
(20.2) (a) The symbol in the front wheel is the hammer and sickle which is the symbol of the Chinese Communist Party. The symbol in the rear wheel represents the dollar, the currency of the capitalist world.
(b) The first symbol represents the Communist ideology and the second represents the Capitalist ideology.
(20.3) It conveys the duality in China, the blend of Communist government and capitalist economy.
Why did the one-party system, represented by the Communist Party, become a source of dissent and dissatisfaction among the Soviet people?
How far can Shock Therapy be called the best way to make the transition from communism to Capitalism?
Read the given passage carefully and answer the following questions:
The United State dropped two atomic bombs on Japanese cities of…. The supporters of U.S. have argued that the dropping of the atomic bomb was necessary to end the war quickly and to stop further loss of American and Allied lives….. the consequence of the end of the Second World War was the rise of two new powers on the global stage with the ability to influence events anywhere on the earth.
(i) Identify the two new powers that rose on the global stage after the Second World War.
(ii) Explain the outcome of the emergence of these two new powers.
(iii) How could these powers influence events anywhere on earth? Explain.
