
Explore the violent history of the contemporary world, covering the First World War, the rise of dictatorship, the Second World War, the United Nations and its agencies, and Non-Aligned Movement.
Explore how postwar dissatisfaction, economic crisis, and political instability fueled fascism in Italy under Mussolini and Nazism in Germany under Hitler, paving the path to dictatorship and world war.
Explore fascism and Nazism, tracing their rise through the Treaty of Versailles, economic humiliation, and weak democracies, and examine their one-party, totalitarian rule under Hitler.
Explore the causes of the First World War, including intense nationalism, imperialism, arms race, Balkan crises, and the absence of an international organization.
Analyze the immediate causes of the first world war, including the assassination of archduke ferdinand, austria-hungary's ultimatum to serbia, secret alliances, and the lusitania incident fueling us entry.
The lecture explains the Treaty of Versailles' crippling terms on Germany, the League of Nations, territorial rearrangements, and the death, devastation, and rise of self-determination after the war.
Explains the causes of the Second World War, including the Treaty of Versailles, fascism and Nazism, appeasement, and the invasion of Poland, ending with Pearl Harbor.
The allied victory ended World War II as axis powers were defeated; Japan surrendered after atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Germany was divided and the United Nations were formed.
Understand the meaning of the non-aligned movement, its neutral stance in the cold war, and its founding leaders, plus key contrasts of capitalism and communism and NAM objectives.
Explore the Non-Aligned Movement's objectives: abolition of imperialism and colonialism, sovereignty and equality for all nations, international peace and security, and disarmament and human rights.
Explore the United Nations' six organs, including the General Assembly as parliament of the world and the Security Council, outlining objectives to save humanity from war and promote human rights.
The security council has five permanent members with veto power and ten non-permanent members. Decisions require 14 votes and may involve negotiation, sanctions, or military action.
Explore the international court of justice, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, settles disputes between sovereign states and issues advisory opinions on interpretation of international law.
Explore UNICEF, WHO, and UNESCO, and their postwar missions to protect women and children, provide relief and vaccination, safe water, education, and cultural preservation.
This is the video course for ICSE Board Students of Class 10. This course will cover and provide the detailed explanation of the World History part, The Contemporary World, Section of ICSE Board, Class10.
The Contemporary World is an important section of study in the syllabus. Therefore, special care and attention I have made in explaining every topic. I hope it will help you to understand each topic clearly.
This course will cover the five important Chapters of the Contemporary World, Part:-
1- First World War.
2- Rise of Dictatorship
3- Second World War.
4- United Nations. And it’s Agencies
5- Non- Aligned Movement.
This course covers a detailed analysis of the whole above mentioned topics in simple and effective language. In this course I have made my best attempt to simplify these difficult topics in simple way to understand.
The First World War and the Second World War and two crucial events in world history. World War I was fought between the Allied Powers and the Central Powers. The main members of the Allied Powers were France, Russia, and Britain. The United States also fought on the side of the Allies after 1917.
The first world war itself sowed the seeds for Second World War, primarily because of the humiliating Treaty of Versailles. We shall see the causes and consequences of the Second World War (WWII) in this video Course.
This course also provides a detailed information about the United Nations and its various agencies. Special Emphasis has been made on the role of United Nations in establishing international peace and security in the world and the course also discusses about the role of it's different agencies in maintaining peace in the world.
In the chapter of non aligned movement, the role of India under the leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru played a leading role in reducing cold war tension between America and Ex-Soviet Russia. The non-aligned movement is still relevant in the present time for maintaining unity and coordination among different countries of Asia Africa and Latin America.
Therefore, let’s begin……