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June 1974

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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