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March 1974

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st March 1974Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  2. 2nd March 1974In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  3. 3rd March 1974What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  4. 4th March 1974Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  5. 5th March 1974Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  6. 6th March 1974What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  7. 7th March 1974Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  8. 8th March 1974What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  9. 9th March 1974Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  10. 10th March 1974Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  11. 11th March 1974In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  12. 12th March 1974What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  13. 13th March 1974How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  14. 14th March 1974Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  15. 15th March 1974What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  16. 16th March 1974On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  17. 17th March 1974Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  18. 18th March 1974Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  19. 19th March 1974What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  20. 20th March 1974In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  21. 21st March 1974In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  22. 22nd March 1974In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  23. 23rd March 1974Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  24. 24th March 1974In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  25. 25th March 1974Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  26. 26th March 1974In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  27. 27th March 1974What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  28. 28th March 1974Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  29. 29th March 1974In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  30. 30th March 1974Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  31. 31st March 1974When did Germany formally reunify?