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December 1972

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st December 1972Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  2. 2nd December 1972Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  3. 3rd December 1972Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  4. 4th December 1972Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  5. 5th December 1972How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  6. 6th December 1972Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  7. 7th December 1972What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  8. 8th December 1972What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  9. 9th December 1972Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  10. 10th December 1972Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  11. 11th December 1972What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  12. 12th December 1972Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  13. 13th December 1972In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  14. 14th December 1972Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  15. 15th December 1972Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  16. 16th December 1972What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  17. 17th December 1972How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  18. 18th December 1972How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  19. 19th December 1972Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  20. 20th December 1972What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  21. 21st December 1972What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  22. 22nd December 1972Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  23. 23rd December 1972Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  24. 24th December 1972What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  25. 25th December 1972In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  26. 26th December 1972What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  27. 27th December 1972In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  28. 28th December 1972What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  29. 29th December 1972In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  30. 30th December 1972Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  31. 31st December 1972What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?