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December 1960 5-a-day

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December 1960

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st December 1960What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  2. 2nd December 1960In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  3. 3rd December 1960Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  4. 4th December 1960What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  5. 5th December 1960Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  6. 6th December 1960Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  7. 7th December 1960In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  8. 8th December 1960Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  9. 9th December 1960Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  10. 10th December 1960In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  11. 11th December 1960Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  12. 12th December 1960Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  13. 13th December 1960Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  14. 14th December 1960What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  15. 15th December 1960Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  16. 16th December 1960What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  17. 17th December 1960What is Passchendaele also known as?
  18. 18th December 1960In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  19. 19th December 1960In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  20. 20th December 1960What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  21. 21st December 1960Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  22. 22nd December 1960What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  23. 23rd December 1960Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  24. 24th December 1960On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  25. 25th December 1960Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  26. 26th December 1960Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  27. 27th December 1960What was the Privy Council?
  28. 28th December 1960What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  29. 29th December 1960In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  30. 30th December 1960Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  31. 31st December 1960Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?