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November 1959

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st November 1959Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  2. 2nd November 1959In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  3. 3rd November 1959Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  4. 4th November 1959When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  5. 5th November 1959In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  6. 6th November 1959What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  7. 7th November 1959Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  8. 8th November 1959What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  9. 9th November 1959Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  10. 10th November 1959In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  11. 11th November 1959What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  12. 12th November 1959Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  13. 13th November 1959Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  14. 14th November 1959How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  15. 15th November 1959When did Germany formally reunify?
  16. 16th November 1959What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  17. 17th November 1959What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  18. 18th November 1959Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  19. 19th November 1959Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  20. 20th November 1959Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  21. 21st November 1959Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  22. 22nd November 1959Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  23. 23rd November 1959Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  24. 24th November 1959Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  25. 25th November 1959What was a Gauleiter?
  26. 26th November 1959What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  27. 27th November 1959How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  28. 28th November 1959Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  29. 29th November 1959What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  30. 30th November 1959On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?