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December 1973

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st December 1973On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  2. 2nd December 1973Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  3. 3rd December 1973What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  4. 4th December 1973Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  5. 5th December 1973Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  6. 6th December 1973In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  7. 7th December 1973Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  8. 8th December 1973Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  9. 9th December 1973Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  10. 10th December 1973Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  11. 11th December 1973In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  12. 12th December 1973What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  13. 13th December 1973How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  14. 14th December 1973Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  15. 15th December 1973What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  16. 16th December 1973When did Germany formally reunify?
  17. 17th December 1973What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  18. 18th December 1973Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  19. 19th December 1973What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  20. 20th December 1973In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  21. 21st December 1973Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  22. 22nd December 1973In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  23. 23rd December 1973Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  24. 24th December 1973In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  25. 25th December 1973Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  26. 26th December 1973What was a Gauleiter?
  27. 27th December 1973What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  28. 28th December 1973Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  29. 29th December 1973In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  30. 30th December 1973Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  31. 31st December 1973On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?