HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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the unification of political groups and social harmony
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successful government efforts to combat inflation.
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policies of economic centralization and rationing.
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an improvement in the status of small business owners.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The immediate cause of World War I that made the aforementioned items come into play (alliances, imperialism, militarism, nationalism) was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary.
Detailed explanation-2: -The First World War created a situation where imports from other countries into India started reducing and there was higher demand for goods like rails, cloth, jute bags.
Detailed explanation-3: -The former empire of Austria-Hungary was dissolved, and new nations were created from its land: Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia.
Detailed explanation-4: -i The First World War created a new economic and political situation in India. It led to huge increase in defence expenditure which was Financed by war loans and increasing taxes custom duties were raised and income tax was introduced. ii Prices increased doubling between 1913-18. This hit the common people.