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April 1966

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st April 1966When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  2. 2nd April 1966What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  3. 3rd April 1966What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  4. 4th April 1966What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  5. 5th April 1966What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  6. 6th April 1966Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  7. 7th April 1966In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  8. 8th April 1966By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  9. 9th April 1966Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  10. 10th April 1966Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  11. 11th April 1966How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  12. 12th April 1966Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  13. 13th April 1966What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  14. 14th April 1966What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  15. 15th April 1966Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  16. 16th April 1966Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  17. 17th April 1966Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  18. 18th April 1966Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  19. 19th April 1966What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  20. 20th April 1966Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  21. 21st April 1966Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  22. 22nd April 1966Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  23. 23rd April 1966Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  24. 24th April 1966How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  25. 25th April 1966Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  26. 26th April 1966What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  27. 27th April 1966Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  28. 28th April 1966What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  29. 29th April 1966Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  30. 30th April 1966What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?