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April 1954

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st April 1954What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  2. 2nd April 1954Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  3. 3rd April 1954What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  4. 4th April 1954In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  5. 5th April 1954What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  6. 6th April 1954In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  7. 7th April 1954In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  8. 8th April 1954In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  9. 9th April 1954Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  10. 10th April 1954What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  11. 11th April 1954How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  12. 12th April 1954Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  13. 13th April 1954In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  14. 14th April 1954Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  15. 15th April 1954What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  16. 16th April 1954Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  17. 17th April 1954Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  18. 18th April 1954Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  19. 19th April 1954Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  20. 20th April 1954What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  21. 21st April 1954Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  22. 22nd April 1954What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  23. 23rd April 1954What is Passchendaele also known as?
  24. 24th April 1954In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  25. 25th April 1954What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  26. 26th April 1954Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  27. 27th April 1954Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  28. 28th April 1954What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  29. 29th April 1954Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  30. 30th April 1954Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?