Arrange the following statements in their sequence.
(A) The Cuban Missile Crisis
(B) The Second World War
(C) The Formation of Eastern Alliance
(D) The First World War
(E) The Formation of Western Alliance
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (D), (B), (E), (C), (A)
(D) The First World War — 1914 to 1918.
(B) The Second World War — 1939 to 1945.
(E) The Formation of Western Alliance — NATO came into existence in April 1949.
(C) The Formation of Eastern Alliance — the Warsaw Pact was created in 1955.
(A) The Cuban Missile Crisis — 1962, when the Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in Cuba.
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. The First World War had earlier shaken the world between 1914 and 1918. The end of the Second World War was also the beginning of the Cold War.… 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. It was an association of twelve states which declared that armed attack on any one of them in Europe or North America would be regarded as an attack on all of them. Each of these states would be obliged to help the other. The eastern alliance, known as the Warsaw Pact, was led by the Soviet Union. It was created in 1955 and its principal function was to counter NATO’s forces in Europe.… CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS … Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union, decided to convert Cuba into a Russian base. In 1962, he placed nuclear missiles in Cuba. The installation of these weapons put the US, for the first time, under fire from close range and nearly doubled the number of bases or cities in the American mainland which could be threatened by the USSR.…” |