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April 1957

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st April 1957Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  2. 2nd April 1957Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  3. 3rd April 1957Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  4. 4th April 1957In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  5. 5th April 1957Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  6. 6th April 1957Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  7. 7th April 1957What is Passchendaele also known as?
  8. 8th April 1957In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  9. 9th April 1957In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  10. 10th April 1957What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  11. 11th April 1957Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  12. 12th April 1957What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  13. 13th April 1957Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  14. 14th April 1957When did Germany formally reunify?
  15. 15th April 1957What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  16. 16th April 1957Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  17. 17th April 1957What was the Privy Council?
  18. 18th April 1957What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  19. 19th April 1957Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  20. 20th April 1957Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  21. 21st April 1957Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  22. 22nd April 1957What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  23. 23rd April 1957In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  24. 24th April 1957What was a Gauleiter?
  25. 25th April 1957What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  26. 26th April 1957What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  27. 27th April 1957What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  28. 28th April 1957What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  29. 29th April 1957On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  30. 30th April 1957What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?