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February 1962

28 sheets · 140 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st February 1962How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  2. 2nd February 1962Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  3. 3rd February 1962In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  4. 4th February 1962What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  5. 5th February 1962Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  6. 6th February 1962Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  7. 7th February 1962What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  8. 8th February 1962Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  9. 9th February 1962What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  10. 10th February 1962Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  11. 11th February 1962Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  12. 12th February 1962In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  13. 13th February 1962What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  14. 14th February 1962How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  15. 15th February 1962Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  16. 16th February 1962What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  17. 17th February 1962On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  18. 18th February 1962Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  19. 19th February 1962Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  20. 20th February 1962What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  21. 21st February 1962In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  22. 22nd February 1962In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  23. 23rd February 1962In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  24. 24th February 1962Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  25. 25th February 1962In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  26. 26th February 1962Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  27. 27th February 1962In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  28. 28th February 1962What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?