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December 1953

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st December 1953Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  2. 2nd December 1953What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  3. 3rd December 1953In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  4. 4th December 1953Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  5. 5th December 1953When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  6. 6th December 1953Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  7. 7th December 1953What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  8. 8th December 1953What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  9. 9th December 1953What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  10. 10th December 1953Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  11. 11th December 1953Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  12. 12th December 1953Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  13. 13th December 1953Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  14. 14th December 1953Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  15. 15th December 1953How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  16. 16th December 1953Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  17. 17th December 1953What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  18. 18th December 1953What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  19. 19th December 1953Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  20. 20th December 1953Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  21. 21st December 1953What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  22. 22nd December 1953Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  23. 23rd December 1953In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  24. 24th December 1953Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  25. 25th December 1953Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  26. 26th December 1953What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  27. 27th December 1953How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  28. 28th December 1953How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  29. 29th December 1953Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  30. 30th December 1953What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  31. 31st December 1953What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?