Arrange the following events in their chronological order.
A. The Cuban Missile Crisis
B. The First Meeting of NAM
C. The Formation of NATO
D. The Korean Crisis
E. The Indo-USSR Friendship Treaty
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → C, D, B, A, E
(C) The Formation of NATO — April 1949.
(D) The Korean Crisis — 1950-53, the Korean War.
(B) The First Meeting of NAM — 1961, the first summit, at Belgrade.
(A) The Cuban Missile Crisis — 1962.
(E) The Indo-USSR Friendship Treaty — August 1971.
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). Four of these events are still dated in other chapters of the NCERT book (2026-27) — the Korean War, the first NAM summit, the Cuban Missile crisis and the Indo-Soviet Treaty; the formation of NATO in April 1949 is given only in the pre-rationalised chapter.
NCERT (2026-27): “Afro-Asian unity … The First Summit of the NAM was held in Belgrade in September 1961.… The Chinese invasion, 1962 … Around this time, while the entire world’s attention was on the Cuban Missile crisis involving the two superpowers, China launched a swift and massive invasion in October 1962 on both the disputed regions.… Bangladesh war, 1971 … In order to counter the US-Pakistan-China axis, India signed a 20-year Treaty of Peace and Friendship with the Soviet Union in August 1971.…” NCERT (2026-27), chapter ‘Contemporary Centres of Power’: “South Korea The Korean peninsula was divided into South Korea (Republic of Korea) and North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) at the end of the Second World War along the 38th Parallel. The Korean War during 1950-53 and dynamics of the Cold War era further intensified the rivalries between the two sides.…” NCERT (Pre-rationalised), chapter ‘The Cold War Era’: “The Emergence of Two Power Blocs … The western alliance was formalised into an organisation, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), which came into existence in April 1949.…” |