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February 1971

28 sheets · 140 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st February 1971What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  2. 2nd February 1971Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  3. 3rd February 1971What was the Privy Council?
  4. 4th February 1971What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  5. 5th February 1971Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  6. 6th February 1971Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  7. 7th February 1971Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  8. 8th February 1971What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  9. 9th February 1971In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  10. 10th February 1971What was a Gauleiter?
  11. 11th February 1971What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  12. 12th February 1971What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  13. 13th February 1971What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  14. 14th February 1971What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  15. 15th February 1971On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  16. 16th February 1971What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  17. 17th February 1971Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  18. 18th February 1971Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  19. 19th February 1971What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  20. 20th February 1971What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  21. 21st February 1971Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  22. 22nd February 1971What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  23. 23rd February 1971Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  24. 24th February 1971Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  25. 25th February 1971In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  26. 26th February 1971By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  27. 27th February 1971What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  28. 28th February 1971What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?