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December 1974

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st December 1974Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  2. 2nd December 1974Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  3. 3rd December 1974What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  4. 4th December 1974Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  5. 5th December 1974Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  6. 6th December 1974Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  7. 7th December 1974Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  8. 8th December 1974How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  9. 9th December 1974Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  10. 10th December 1974What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  11. 11th December 1974Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  12. 12th December 1974What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  13. 13th December 1974Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  14. 14th December 1974What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  15. 15th December 1974In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  16. 16th December 1974What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  17. 17th December 1974In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  18. 18th December 1974In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  19. 19th December 1974In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  20. 20th December 1974Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  21. 21st December 1974What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  22. 22nd December 1974How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  23. 23rd December 1974Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  24. 24th December 1974In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  25. 25th December 1974Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  26. 26th December 1974What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  27. 27th December 1974Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  28. 28th December 1974Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  29. 29th December 1974Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  30. 30th December 1974Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  31. 31st December 1974What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?