GCSE Core Knowledge Questions

GCSE History Core Knowledge
Weimar and Nazi Germany
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The system of rules by which a country is governed is ...
The peace treaty at the end of World War One
The myth that Germany were on the verge of winning the war but let down by
politicians who signed the peace treaty
The name given to the money Germany had to repay to the Allies
Who was the Left wing group who tried to overthrow the government in 1919
Who was the right wing group who attempted to overthrow the government
The Nazi attempt to overthrow the government by force was called
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Hitler’s private army was called ...
What year did the French occupy the Ruhr?
When the price of good rises rapidly ...
What was the time period when Stresemann ruled Germany known as
The global economic crisis that hit Germany’s economy was called ..
What date did Hitler become Chancellor?
What happened on 27th February 1933?
The Law which would give the sole power to make his own laws
The deal Hitler made with the catholic church was called
On this Night Hitler got rid of all his political enemies
What month and year did Hindenburg die?
A form of control which uses violence and the threat of violence ...
A form of control which uses persuasion ..
Who was Minister for Propaganda?
What year was the Olympic Games held in Germany?
The name of the church set up by Hitler was ...
Who was the protestant minister who openly opposed Hitler?
What did Von Galen specifically preach against?
What was the name of the group run by Sophie Scholl who opposed Hitler
called?
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What did the Law for the Encourage of Marriage offer couples
A subject introduced to the curriculum to teach pupils about race and biology
All young boys were expected to join this ...
Who was the minister in charge of the new plan?
What was Goering’s economic plan called?
The name for self sufficiency ...
What were the autobahns built under?
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37 What was the name of the laws brought in in 1935 to discriminate against the
Jews
38 The term the Nazis used for the Jews was ...
39 What year was Kristalnacht?
40 A conference held in 1941 to discuss the fate of the Jews
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Constitution
Treaty of Versailles
Stab in the back
Reparations
Spartacists
Kapp putsch
The Munich or Beer Hall
putsch
SA
1923
Hyperinflation
The golden 20s
The Wall Street Crash
30th Jan 1933
Reichstag Fire
The Enabling Act
The Concordat
Night of the Long Knives
August 1934
Terror
Propaganda
Goebbels
1936
The Reich Church
Bonhoeffer
Euthanasia Programme
The white rose
The bomb plot to
assassinate Hitler failed
Kinder (children)
Kirche (Church)
Kuche (cooking)
Loans
Eugenics
The Hitler youth
Schacht
The four Year plan
Autarky
The public works
programmes
Strength through joy
The Nuremberg Laws
Untermenschen
1938
Wannsee Conference
GCSE History Core Knowledge
Medicine through time
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Who is considered to be the Father of Modern Medicine
What was the name of the doctor who developed the theory of opposites
What is the name of the structures that brought water to Roman towns
A place where Romans went to get clean was called
The most common treatment in Roman and Medieval times was
What highly infectious disease spread through Europe in the 14th century
and the 17th century?
What is the name of the theory developed in Ancient Greece to explain
illness and later developed by Galen?
Who proved Galen was wrong about the kidneys.
What is the name for the time period between of great change in medical
understanding in 16th and 17th century is ...
What was the name of the group set up in 1660 to enable educated
people to discuss scientific ideas ...
A way of giving a patient a mild dose of an illness to build up immunity is
called ...
The theory that illness is caused by bad smells is called ...
The theory that rubbish or decaying materials creates microbes is called
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The name of Jenner’s discovery is?
What deadly disease first came to Britain in 1831?
Who came up with the Germ Theory?
Who developed Pasteur’s work further in 1875?
What was the name of the first female to qualify as a doctor in Britain?
She was also known as the Lady with the Lamp ...
The name given to drugs that stop infections caused by bacteria is ...
What disease did the first magic bullet cure?
What was the first magic bullet called?
What disease was Gerhard Domagk trying to cure in 1932?
Who was the first person to work on developing Penicillin?
Why didn’t penicillin get developed in the 1920s?
Who funded the mass production of penicillin?
What are the names of the two scientists who developed penicillin?
What year was the NHS set up?
What did Crick and Watson discover?
The idea that the government should not interfere is ...
Where someone with a disease is isolated ...
The coordination and provision by the government of all matters
affecting the health of people is called ...
A place where people could go if they were really poor and work for their
food and board.
These were passed in the medieval times to order people to clean the
streets
He paid for water to be pumped into London in 1609
What people used at night instead of going out to the privy...
Inventor of the water closet was ..
This alcoholic beverage was heavily taxed in 1750 to make it more
expensive because there were concerns that it was having a bad effect
on the poor ..
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Hippocrates
Galen
Aqueducts
Bath House
Herbal remedy
The Black Death
The four humours
Vesalius
The Renaissance
The Royal Society
Inoculation
Miasma
Spontaneous Generation
Vaccination
Cholera
Pasteur
Koch
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Florence Nightingale
Antibiotics
Syphilis
Salvarsan 606
Blood poisoning
Fleming
No funding
The American government
Florey and Chain
1948
DNA
Laissez faire
Quarantine
The welfare state
Workhouse
By-laws
Hugh Myddleton
Chamber pots
Sir John Harrington
Gin
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What year was vaccination made compulsory?
The name for cheap accommodation people lived in in industrial cities
Who was the civil servant who researched living conditions in the 19th
century and whose recommendations were the basis for the public
health acts
What year was the first public health act
Why did the first public health act have little impact?
What did John Snow discover?
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What year was The Great Stink?
What do Charles Booth and Seebohm Rowntree have in common?
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How many potential recruits for the Boer war were medically unfit to
serve in the army
When was the national insurance act passed
What year was the ministry of health set up?
What did Bazalgette do?
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Back to back
Edwin Chadwick
1848
It wasn’t compulsory
That cholera was spread by dirty
water
1858
They both researched the living
conditions of the poor
A third
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Developed the London sewer network
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Something that fights against sepsis and the microbes that create
infection
Sterile or free from infection
The operation that was mostly commonly done pre anaesthetics
A substance that makes you not feel pain
The surgeon with the record for a 300% death rate in one operation
the substance used by Humphry Davy as an anaesthetics
What year was Ether first used by Morton as an anaesthetic
The first person to use Chloroform in surgery was ...
The person who used chloroform in childbirth and made its use more
acceptable
Anaesthetics gave surgeons this ...
The time period after anaesthetics were first used but before
antiseptics were introduced when the death rate from surgery went
up
Who was the doctor who introduced routine hand washing to reduce
death rates in his hospital?
What substance did Lister use to limit infection?
The name of the girl who died after an overdose of chloroform
Who is the first person to introduce rubber gloves in surgery?
Was did Landsteiner discover?
What substance was used to make the storage of blood possible in
time for WWI
What did Wilhelm Rontgen discover in 1895?
What was the name of the surgeon who developed plastic surgery in
World War One
What highly addictive drug was used as an anaesthetic
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Antiseptic
Aseptic
Amputations
Anaesthetic
Liston
Laughing gas
1846
Simpson
Queen Victoria
Time
The dark age of surgery
Semmelweiss
Carbolic Acid
Hannah Greener
William Halstead
Blood groups
Sodium citrate
X Ray
Gilles
Cocaine