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October 1966

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st October 1966Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  2. 2nd October 1966What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  3. 3rd October 1966Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  4. 4th October 1966In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  5. 5th October 1966What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  6. 6th October 1966Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  7. 7th October 1966Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  8. 8th October 1966How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  9. 9th October 1966When did Germany formally reunify?
  10. 10th October 1966What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  11. 11th October 1966What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  12. 12th October 1966Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  13. 13th October 1966Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  14. 14th October 1966Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  15. 15th October 1966Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  16. 16th October 1966Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  17. 17th October 1966Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  18. 18th October 1966Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  19. 19th October 1966What was a Gauleiter?
  20. 20th October 1966What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  21. 21st October 1966How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  22. 22nd October 1966Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  23. 23rd October 1966What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  24. 24th October 1966On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  25. 25th October 1966What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  26. 26th October 1966Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  27. 27th October 1966What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  28. 28th October 1966In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  29. 29th October 1966What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  30. 30th October 1966In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  31. 31st October 1966What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?