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May 1979

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st May 1979Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  2. 2nd May 1979Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  3. 3rd May 1979How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  4. 4th May 1979Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  5. 5th May 1979In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  6. 6th May 1979What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  7. 7th May 1979Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  8. 8th May 1979Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  9. 9th May 1979What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  10. 10th May 1979Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  11. 11th May 1979What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  12. 12th May 1979Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  13. 13th May 1979Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  14. 14th May 1979In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  15. 15th May 1979What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  16. 16th May 1979How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  17. 17th May 1979Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  18. 18th May 1979What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  19. 19th May 1979On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  20. 20th May 1979Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  21. 21st May 1979Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  22. 22nd May 1979What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  23. 23rd May 1979In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  24. 24th May 1979In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  25. 25th May 1979In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  26. 26th May 1979Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  27. 27th May 1979In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  28. 28th May 1979Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  29. 29th May 1979In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  30. 30th May 1979What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  31. 31st May 1979Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.