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December 1958

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st December 1958Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  2. 2nd December 1958How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  3. 3rd December 1958Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  4. 4th December 1958What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  5. 5th December 1958Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  6. 6th December 1958In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  7. 7th December 1958Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  8. 8th December 1958What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  9. 9th December 1958In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  10. 10th December 1958What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  11. 11th December 1958In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  12. 12th December 1958What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  13. 13th December 1958In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  14. 14th December 1958Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  15. 15th December 1958In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  16. 16th December 1958What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  17. 17th December 1958Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  18. 18th December 1958In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  19. 19th December 1958Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  20. 20th December 1958On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  21. 21st December 1958Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  22. 22nd December 1958Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  23. 23rd December 1958Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  24. 24th December 1958Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  25. 25th December 1958In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  26. 26th December 1958Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  27. 27th December 1958Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  28. 28th December 1958What is Passchendaele also known as?
  29. 29th December 1958In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  30. 30th December 1958In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  31. 31st December 1958What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?