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May 1965

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st May 1965What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  2. 2nd May 1965When did Germany formally reunify?
  3. 3rd May 1965What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  4. 4th May 1965Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  5. 5th May 1965What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  6. 6th May 1965In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  7. 7th May 1965Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  8. 8th May 1965In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  9. 9th May 1965Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  10. 10th May 1965In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  11. 11th May 1965Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  12. 12th May 1965What was a Gauleiter?
  13. 13th May 1965What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  14. 14th May 1965Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  15. 15th May 1965In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  16. 16th May 1965Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  17. 17th May 1965On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  18. 18th May 1965What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  19. 19th May 1965Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  20. 20th May 1965Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  21. 21st May 1965Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  22. 22nd May 1965What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  23. 23rd May 1965Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  24. 24th May 1965What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  25. 25th May 1965What is Passchendaele also known as?
  26. 26th May 1965In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  27. 27th May 1965In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  28. 28th May 1965By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  29. 29th May 1965Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  30. 30th May 1965What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  31. 31st May 1965Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?