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January 1966

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st January 1966When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  2. 2nd January 1966Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  3. 3rd January 1966What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  4. 4th January 1966What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  5. 5th January 1966What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  6. 6th January 1966Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  7. 7th January 1966Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  8. 8th January 1966Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  9. 9th January 1966Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  10. 10th January 1966Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  11. 11th January 1966How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  12. 12th January 1966Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  13. 13th January 1966What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  14. 14th January 1966What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  15. 15th January 1966Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  16. 16th January 1966Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  17. 17th January 1966What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  18. 18th January 1966Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  19. 19th January 1966In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  20. 20th January 1966Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  21. 21st January 1966Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  22. 22nd January 1966What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  23. 23rd January 1966How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  24. 24th January 1966How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  25. 25th January 1966Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  26. 26th January 1966What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  27. 27th January 1966What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  28. 28th January 1966Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  29. 29th January 1966Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  30. 30th January 1966What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  31. 31st January 1966In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?