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May 1960

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st May 1960Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  2. 2nd May 1960When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  3. 3rd May 1960What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  4. 4th May 1960What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  5. 5th May 1960What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  6. 6th May 1960What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  7. 7th May 1960Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  8. 8th May 1960What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  9. 9th May 1960Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  10. 10th May 1960Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  11. 11th May 1960Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  12. 12th May 1960How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  13. 13th May 1960Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  14. 14th May 1960In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  15. 15th May 1960What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  16. 16th May 1960Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  17. 17th May 1960Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  18. 18th May 1960What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  19. 19th May 1960Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  20. 20th May 1960What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  21. 21st May 1960Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  22. 22nd May 1960Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  23. 23rd May 1960In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  24. 24th May 1960What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  25. 25th May 1960How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  26. 26th May 1960Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  27. 27th May 1960What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  28. 28th May 1960On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  29. 29th May 1960Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  30. 30th May 1960Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  31. 31st May 1960What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?