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February 1972

29 sheets · 145 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st February 1972Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  2. 2nd February 1972In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  3. 3rd February 1972What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  4. 4th February 1972In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  5. 5th February 1972What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  6. 6th February 1972How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  7. 7th February 1972What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  8. 8th February 1972What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  9. 9th February 1972What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  10. 10th February 1972What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  11. 11th February 1972Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  12. 12th February 1972Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  13. 13th February 1972Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  14. 14th February 1972What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  15. 15th February 1972What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  16. 16th February 1972Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  17. 17th February 1972What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  18. 18th February 1972Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  19. 19th February 1972Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  20. 20th February 1972What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  21. 21st February 1972Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  22. 22nd February 1972What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  23. 23rd February 1972What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  24. 24th February 1972What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  25. 25th February 1972Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  26. 26th February 1972In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  27. 27th February 1972In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  28. 28th February 1972Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  29. 29th February 1972When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?