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February 1979

28 sheets · 140 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st February 1979Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  2. 2nd February 1979How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  3. 3rd February 1979On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  4. 4th February 1979Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  5. 5th February 1979What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  6. 6th February 1979Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  7. 7th February 1979Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  8. 8th February 1979In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  9. 9th February 1979Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  10. 10th February 1979Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  11. 11th February 1979Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  12. 12th February 1979Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  13. 13th February 1979In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  14. 14th February 1979What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  15. 15th February 1979How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  16. 16th February 1979Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  17. 17th February 1979What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  18. 18th February 1979When did Germany formally reunify?
  19. 19th February 1979What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  20. 20th February 1979Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  21. 21st February 1979What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  22. 22nd February 1979In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  23. 23rd February 1979Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  24. 24th February 1979In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  25. 25th February 1979Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  26. 26th February 1979In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  27. 27th February 1979Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  28. 28th February 1979What was a Gauleiter?