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January 1968

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st January 1968How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  2. 2nd January 1968Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  3. 3rd January 1968What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  4. 4th January 1968What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  5. 5th January 1968Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  6. 6th January 1968Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  7. 7th January 1968Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  8. 8th January 1968Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  9. 9th January 1968What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  10. 10th January 1968Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  11. 11th January 1968Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  12. 12th January 1968Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  13. 13th January 1968Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  14. 14th January 1968How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  15. 15th January 1968Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  16. 16th January 1968What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  17. 17th January 1968Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  18. 18th January 1968What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  19. 19th January 1968Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  20. 20th January 1968What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  21. 21st January 1968In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  22. 22nd January 1968What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  23. 23rd January 1968In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  24. 24th January 1968In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  25. 25th January 1968In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  26. 26th January 1968Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  27. 27th January 1968What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  28. 28th January 1968How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  29. 29th January 1968Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  30. 30th January 1968In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  31. 31st January 1968Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?