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April 1959

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st April 1959Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  2. 2nd April 1959What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  3. 3rd April 1959Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  4. 4th April 1959On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  5. 5th April 1959Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  6. 6th April 1959Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  7. 7th April 1959What was the Privy Council?
  8. 8th April 1959What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  9. 9th April 1959In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  10. 10th April 1959Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  11. 11th April 1959Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  12. 12th April 1959What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  13. 13th April 1959In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  14. 14th April 1959In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  15. 15th April 1959What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  16. 16th April 1959What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  17. 17th April 1959What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  18. 18th April 1959What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  19. 19th April 1959When did Germany formally reunify?
  20. 20th April 1959What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  21. 21st April 1959Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  22. 22nd April 1959Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  23. 23rd April 1959What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  24. 24th April 1959Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  25. 25th April 1959Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  26. 26th April 1959Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  27. 27th April 1959Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  28. 28th April 1959Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  29. 29th April 1959What was a Gauleiter?
  30. 30th April 1959What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?