History · World History

Match the sentences from Column-I with Column-II to form grammatically and contextually correct pairs, and identify the word that fills the blank in sentence (A): Column-I (A) Germany, a powerful empire in the early years of the twentieth century, fought the First World War _______ the Austrian empire and against the Allies. (B) The disappearance of forests is referred to as deforestation. It is not a recent problem. (C) In the nineteenth century, when it became important to control territories and not just people, the Dutch enacted Forest laws in Java, Column-II (D) the process began many centuries ago; but under colonial rule it became more systematic and extensive. (E) restricting villagers' access to forests. Now wood could only be cut for specified purposes and only from specific forests under close supervision. (F) all joined the war enthusiastically hoping to gain from a quick victory. Little did they realize that the war would stretch on, eventually draining Europe of all its resources.