Given below are two statements:
Statement (I): In 1945, the Allied forces, led by the US, Soviet Union, Britain and France defeated the Axis powers led by Germany, Italy and Japan.
Statement (II): The second world war had not involved the major powers of Europe.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Statement I is true but Statement II is false
Statement (I) — True. In 1945, the Allied Forces, led by the US, Soviet Union, Britain and France, defeated the Axis Powers led by Germany, Italy and Japan, ending the Second World War (1939-1945).
Statement (II) — False. The war had involved almost all the major powers of the world and spread out to regions outside Europe, including Southeast Asia, China, Burma and parts of India’s northeast.
Note: This question is taken from the chapter ‘The Cold War Era’ which was there in the pre-rationalised NCERT and has been deleted from subsequent editions of NCERT, including the NCERT book (2026-27).
NCERT (Pre-rationalised): “What is the Cold War? … The end of the Second World War is a landmark in contemporary world politics. In 1945, the Allied Forces, led by the US, Soviet Union, Britain and France defeated the Axis Powers led by Germany, Italy and Japan, ending the Second World War (1939–1945). The war had involved almost all the major powers of the world and spread out to regions outside Europe including Southeast Asia, China, Burma (now Myanmar) and parts of India’s northeast. The war devastated the world in terms of loss of human lives and civilian property.…” |