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September 1974

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st September 1974Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  2. 2nd September 1974What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  3. 3rd September 1974Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  4. 4th September 1974In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  5. 5th September 1974Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  6. 6th September 1974Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  7. 7th September 1974What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  8. 8th September 1974How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  9. 9th September 1974How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  10. 10th September 1974Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  11. 11th September 1974What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  12. 12th September 1974What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  13. 13th September 1974Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  14. 14th September 1974Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  15. 15th September 1974What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  16. 16th September 1974In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  17. 17th September 1974What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  18. 18th September 1974In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  19. 19th September 1974What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  20. 20th September 1974In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  21. 21st September 1974Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  22. 22nd September 1974What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  23. 23rd September 1974Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  24. 24th September 1974Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  25. 25th September 1974In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  26. 26th September 1974Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  27. 27th September 1974Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  28. 28th September 1974In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  29. 29th September 1974Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  30. 30th September 1974Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?