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January 1969 5-a-day

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January 1969

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st January 1969What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  2. 2nd January 1969Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  3. 3rd January 1969What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  4. 4th January 1969Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  5. 5th January 1969Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  6. 6th January 1969In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  7. 7th January 1969What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  8. 8th January 1969How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  9. 9th January 1969Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  10. 10th January 1969What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  11. 11th January 1969On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  12. 12th January 1969Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  13. 13th January 1969Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  14. 14th January 1969What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  15. 15th January 1969In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  16. 16th January 1969In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  17. 17th January 1969In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  18. 18th January 1969Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  19. 19th January 1969In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  20. 20th January 1969Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  21. 21st January 1969In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  22. 22nd January 1969What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  23. 23rd January 1969Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  24. 24th January 1969In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  25. 25th January 1969Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  26. 26th January 1969When did Germany formally reunify?
  27. 27th January 1969What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  28. 28th January 1969Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  29. 29th January 1969Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  30. 30th January 1969Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  31. 31st January 1969Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?