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February 1953

28 sheets · 140 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st February 1953Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  2. 2nd February 1953What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  3. 3rd February 1953Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  4. 4th February 1953Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  5. 5th February 1953What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  6. 6th February 1953Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  7. 7th February 1953What was the Privy Council?
  8. 8th February 1953What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  9. 9th February 1953What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  10. 10th February 1953Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  11. 11th February 1953In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  12. 12th February 1953What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  13. 13th February 1953In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  14. 14th February 1953What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  15. 15th February 1953How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  16. 16th February 1953What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  17. 17th February 1953What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  18. 18th February 1953What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  19. 19th February 1953What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  20. 20th February 1953Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  21. 21st February 1953Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  22. 22nd February 1953Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  23. 23rd February 1953What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  24. 24th February 1953What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  25. 25th February 1953Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  26. 26th February 1953What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  27. 27th February 1953Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  28. 28th February 1953Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?