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US car production rose from 2 million in 1919 to more than how many in 1929?Read the answer and worked solution →The Great Depression began around:Read the answer and worked solution →Between 1928 and 1934, wheat prices in India fell by:Read the answer and worked solution →The Bretton Woods conference of July 1944 was held in:Read the answer and worked solution →The IMF and the World Bank commenced financial operations in:Read the answer and worked solution →Under the Bretton Woods system, the dollar was anchored to gold at a fixed price of:Read the answer and worked solution →Developing countries demanding a new international economic order organised as the:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the indenture destinationsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Bretton Woods wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the global-world datesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the pre-modern exchange wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Before 1914 or between the warsRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the three flowsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Global world bingoRead the answer and worked solution →The earliest hand printing, rubbing paper on inked woodblocks from AD 594, developed in:Read the answer and worked solution →The oldest Japanese printed book, from AD 868, is the Buddhist:Read the answer and worked solution →Who brought knowledge of woodblock printing from China to Italy in 1295?Read the answer and worked solution →Johann Gutenberg developed the first-known printing press in the 1430s at:Read the answer and worked solution →Gutenberg modelled his printing press on the:Read the answer and worked solution →The first book Gutenberg printed was the Bible, in about how many copies?Read the answer and worked solution →Martin Luther wrote the Ninety Five Theses criticising Church practices in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Roman Church began keeping an Index of Prohibited Books from:Read the answer and worked solution →Penny chapbooks carried by pedlars called chapmen were sold in:Read the answer and worked solution →Richard M. Hoe's power-driven cylindrical press could print how many sheets per hour?Read the answer and worked solution →The printing press first came to India with Portuguese missionaries at:Read the answer and worked solution →Catholic priests printed the first Tamil book in 1579 at:Read the answer and worked solution →From 1780, James Augustus Hickey edited which weekly, the start of English printing in India?Read the answer and worked solution →Rammohun Roy published which paper from 1821?Read the answer and worked solution →The Gujarati newspaper Bombay Samachar first appeared in:Read the answer and worked solution →

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US car production rose from 2 million in 1919 to more than how many in 1929?

  1. 9 million
  2. 5 million
  3. 3 million
  4. 8 million
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Correct answer: B. 5 million

1. Higher wages let workers buy cars. 2. Output passed 5 million in 1929. 3. Hire purchase fuelled the boom. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 3, The Making of a Global World._

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The Great Depression began around:

  1. 1939
  2. 1914
  3. 1929
  4. 1919
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Correct answer: C. 1929

1. US loans dried up and banks failed. 2. It began around 1929. 3. It lasted till the mid-1930s. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 3, The Making of a Global World._

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Between 1928 and 1934, wheat prices in India fell by:

  1. 10 per cent
  2. 20 per cent
  3. 90 per cent
  4. 50 per cent
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Correct answer: D. 50 per cent

1. India's trade nearly halved. 2. Wheat prices fell 50 per cent. 3. The government still demanded full revenue. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 3, The Making of a Global World._

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