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November 1961

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st November 1961Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  2. 2nd November 1961Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  3. 3rd November 1961How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  4. 4th November 1961On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  5. 5th November 1961Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  6. 6th November 1961What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  7. 7th November 1961Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  8. 8th November 1961Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  9. 9th November 1961In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  10. 10th November 1961Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  11. 11th November 1961Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  12. 12th November 1961Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  13. 13th November 1961Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  14. 14th November 1961In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  15. 15th November 1961What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  16. 16th November 1961How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  17. 17th November 1961Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  18. 18th November 1961What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  19. 19th November 1961When did Germany formally reunify?
  20. 20th November 1961What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  21. 21st November 1961Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  22. 22nd November 1961What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  23. 23rd November 1961In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  24. 24th November 1961Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  25. 25th November 1961In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  26. 26th November 1961Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  27. 27th November 1961In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  28. 28th November 1961Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  29. 29th November 1961What was a Gauleiter?
  30. 30th November 1961What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?