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June 1957

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st June 1957Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  2. 2nd June 1957Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  3. 3rd June 1957What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  4. 4th June 1957Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  5. 5th June 1957In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  6. 6th June 1957Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  7. 7th June 1957Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  8. 8th June 1957What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  9. 9th June 1957How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  10. 10th June 1957How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  11. 11th June 1957Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  12. 12th June 1957What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  13. 13th June 1957What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  14. 14th June 1957Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  15. 15th June 1957Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  16. 16th June 1957What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  17. 17th June 1957In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  18. 18th June 1957What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  19. 19th June 1957In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  20. 20th June 1957What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  21. 21st June 1957In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  22. 22nd June 1957Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  23. 23rd June 1957What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  24. 24th June 1957Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  25. 25th June 1957Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  26. 26th June 1957In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  27. 27th June 1957Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  28. 28th June 1957Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  29. 29th June 1957In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  30. 30th June 1957Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.