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February 1963

28 sheets · 140 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st February 1963Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  2. 2nd February 1963What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  3. 3rd February 1963Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  4. 4th February 1963What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  5. 5th February 1963Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  6. 6th February 1963Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  7. 7th February 1963In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  8. 8th February 1963By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  9. 9th February 1963How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  10. 10th February 1963Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  11. 11th February 1963What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  12. 12th February 1963Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  13. 13th February 1963What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  14. 14th February 1963Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  15. 15th February 1963What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  16. 16th February 1963In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  17. 17th February 1963Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  18. 18th February 1963In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  19. 19th February 1963What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  20. 20th February 1963In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  21. 21st February 1963Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  22. 22nd February 1963Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  23. 23rd February 1963Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  24. 24th February 1963Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  25. 25th February 1963In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  26. 26th February 1963Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  27. 27th February 1963Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  28. 28th February 1963What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?