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February 1969

28 sheets · 140 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st February 1969Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  2. 2nd February 1969Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  3. 3rd February 1969What is Passchendaele also known as?
  4. 4th February 1969In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  5. 5th February 1969What was a Gauleiter?
  6. 6th February 1969What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  7. 7th February 1969Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  8. 8th February 1969What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  9. 9th February 1969Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  10. 10th February 1969On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  11. 11th February 1969What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  12. 12th February 1969Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  13. 13th February 1969What was the Privy Council?
  14. 14th February 1969What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  15. 15th February 1969What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  16. 16th February 1969Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  17. 17th February 1969What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  18. 18th February 1969What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  19. 19th February 1969In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  20. 20th February 1969In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  21. 21st February 1969By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  22. 22nd February 1969What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  23. 23rd February 1969What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  24. 24th February 1969What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  25. 25th February 1969Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  26. 26th February 1969What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  27. 27th February 1969Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  28. 28th February 1969Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?