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September 1979

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st September 1979On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  2. 2nd September 1979Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  3. 3rd September 1979Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  4. 4th September 1979Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  5. 5th September 1979Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  6. 6th September 1979In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  7. 7th September 1979Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  8. 8th September 1979Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  9. 9th September 1979What is Passchendaele also known as?
  10. 10th September 1979In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  11. 11th September 1979In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  12. 12th September 1979What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  13. 13th September 1979Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  14. 14th September 1979What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  15. 15th September 1979Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  16. 16th September 1979When did Germany formally reunify?
  17. 17th September 1979What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  18. 18th September 1979Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  19. 19th September 1979What was the Privy Council?
  20. 20th September 1979What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  21. 21st September 1979Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  22. 22nd September 1979Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  23. 23rd September 1979Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  24. 24th September 1979What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  25. 25th September 1979In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  26. 26th September 1979What was a Gauleiter?
  27. 27th September 1979What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  28. 28th September 1979What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  29. 29th September 1979What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  30. 30th September 1979What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?