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February 1959

28 sheets · 140 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st February 1959What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  2. 2nd February 1959What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  3. 3rd February 1959Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  4. 4th February 1959What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  5. 5th February 1959In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  6. 6th February 1959Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  7. 7th February 1959When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  8. 8th February 1959Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  9. 9th February 1959What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  10. 10th February 1959What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  11. 11th February 1959What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  12. 12th February 1959Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  13. 13th February 1959Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  14. 14th February 1959Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  15. 15th February 1959Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  16. 16th February 1959Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  17. 17th February 1959How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  18. 18th February 1959Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  19. 19th February 1959What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  20. 20th February 1959What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  21. 21st February 1959Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  22. 22nd February 1959Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  23. 23rd February 1959What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  24. 24th February 1959Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  25. 25th February 1959In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  26. 26th February 1959Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  27. 27th February 1959Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  28. 28th February 1959What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?