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December 1955

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st December 1955In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  2. 2nd December 1955By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  3. 3rd December 1955Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  4. 4th December 1955Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  5. 5th December 1955How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  6. 6th December 1955Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  7. 7th December 1955What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  8. 8th December 1955What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  9. 9th December 1955Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  10. 10th December 1955Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  11. 11th December 1955Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  12. 12th December 1955Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  13. 13th December 1955What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  14. 14th December 1955Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  15. 15th December 1955Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  16. 16th December 1955Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  17. 17th December 1955Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  18. 18th December 1955How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  19. 19th December 1955Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  20. 20th December 1955What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  21. 21st December 1955Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  22. 22nd December 1955What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  23. 23rd December 1955Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  24. 24th December 1955What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  25. 25th December 1955In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  26. 26th December 1955What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  27. 27th December 1955In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  28. 28th December 1955In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  29. 29th December 1955In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  30. 30th December 1955Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  31. 31st December 1955What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?