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April 1969

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st April 1969What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  2. 2nd April 1969Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  3. 3rd April 1969What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  4. 4th April 1969Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  5. 5th April 1969Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  6. 6th April 1969What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  7. 7th April 1969Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  8. 8th April 1969How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  9. 9th April 1969Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  10. 10th April 1969What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  11. 11th April 1969Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  12. 12th April 1969In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  13. 13th April 1969Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  14. 14th April 1969What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  15. 15th April 1969In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  16. 16th April 1969What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  17. 17th April 1969In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  18. 18th April 1969What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  19. 19th April 1969In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  20. 20th April 1969Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  21. 21st April 1969In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  22. 22nd April 1969What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  23. 23rd April 1969Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  24. 24th April 1969In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  25. 25th April 1969Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  26. 26th April 1969On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  27. 27th April 1969Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  28. 28th April 1969Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  29. 29th April 1969Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  30. 30th April 1969Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?