Answer:
The Kerenskii Government became unpopular
in Russia due to the following reasons
(i)
The winter of 1917 was very cold. There had been exceptional frost and heavy
snow. Conditions in the capital Petrograd were grim. Food shortages were deeply
felt in the worker's quarters.
(ii)
During the First World War, Russian casualties by 1917 had risen to over 7
million. As the Russian army retreated, they destroyed crops and buildings to
prevent the enemy from being able to live off the land. This destruction led to
over 3 million refugees in Russia. Soldier did not wish to fight the war.
(iii)
Large supplies of grain were sent to feed the army. For the people in the
cities foods became scarce and riots at bread shops were common.
(iv)
Peasants demand of redistribution of land, worker's demand of control over
industries and the demand of equal status by non-Russian nationalities were not
met by the Kerenskii Government. (3)
Or
Hitler undertook the following steps
to militarise Germany (any three)
(i)
Hitler rebuilt the Army, Navy and Air Force to restore the dignity of Germany.
This was contrary to the Treaty of Versailles, but none of the allied powers
resisted as they were engaged in their domestic affairs.
(ii) In 1936, Hitler sent an army to
acquire Rhineland.
(iii) Emboldened, Hitler integrated
Austria and Germany in 1938 under the slogan 'one people, one empire and one leader'.
(iv) Hitler chose war as a way out
of the approaching economic crisis to amass resources.
(v)
At 14 years of age, all boys had to join the Nazi youth organization, 'Hilter
youth' were inspired to worship war, glorify aggression and violence, condemn
democracy and hate Jews, communists, gypsies and all the' undesirables'.
(vi)
After rigorous ideological and physical training they had to join the Labour
Service at the age of 18 to serve in the armed
forces.
(3)
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