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April 1955

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st April 1955In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  2. 2nd April 1955Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  3. 3rd April 1955In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  4. 4th April 1955Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  5. 5th April 1955In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  6. 6th April 1955What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  7. 7th April 1955Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  8. 8th April 1955In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  9. 9th April 1955Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  10. 10th April 1955When did Germany formally reunify?
  11. 11th April 1955What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  12. 12th April 1955Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  13. 13th April 1955Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  14. 14th April 1955Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  15. 15th April 1955Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  16. 16th April 1955Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  17. 17th April 1955Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  18. 18th April 1955What is Passchendaele also known as?
  19. 19th April 1955In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  20. 20th April 1955What was a Gauleiter?
  21. 21st April 1955What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  22. 22nd April 1955Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  23. 23rd April 1955What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  24. 24th April 1955Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  25. 25th April 1955On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  26. 26th April 1955What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  27. 27th April 1955Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  28. 28th April 1955What was the Privy Council?
  29. 29th April 1955What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  30. 30th April 1955What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?