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February 1961

28 sheets · 140 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st February 1961Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  2. 2nd February 1961In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  3. 3rd February 1961By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  4. 4th February 1961Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  5. 5th February 1961Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  6. 6th February 1961How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  7. 7th February 1961Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  8. 8th February 1961What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  9. 9th February 1961What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  10. 10th February 1961Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  11. 11th February 1961Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  12. 12th February 1961Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  13. 13th February 1961Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  14. 14th February 1961What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  15. 15th February 1961Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  16. 16th February 1961Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  17. 17th February 1961Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  18. 18th February 1961Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  19. 19th February 1961How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  20. 20th February 1961Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  21. 21st February 1961What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  22. 22nd February 1961Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  23. 23rd February 1961What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  24. 24th February 1961Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  25. 25th February 1961What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  26. 26th February 1961In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  27. 27th February 1961What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  28. 28th February 1961In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?