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December 1956

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st December 1956In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  2. 2nd December 1956What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  3. 3rd December 1956Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  4. 4th December 1956Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  5. 5th December 1956What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  6. 6th December 1956Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  7. 7th December 1956What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  8. 8th December 1956Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  9. 9th December 1956Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  10. 10th December 1956In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  11. 11th December 1956What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  12. 12th December 1956How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  13. 13th December 1956Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  14. 14th December 1956What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  15. 15th December 1956On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  16. 16th December 1956Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  17. 17th December 1956Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  18. 18th December 1956What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  19. 19th December 1956In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  20. 20th December 1956In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  21. 21st December 1956In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  22. 22nd December 1956Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  23. 23rd December 1956In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  24. 24th December 1956Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  25. 25th December 1956In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  26. 26th December 1956What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  27. 27th December 1956Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  28. 28th December 1956In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  29. 29th December 1956Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  30. 30th December 1956When did Germany formally reunify?
  31. 31st December 1956What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?