Fact test 1

Question 1

When did Pitt become PM?

Answer 1

1783 following the failure of the India act

Question 2

Who did Pitt deliberately not include in his cabinet

Answer 2

Heavyweights, such as Shelbourne or Jenkinson

Question 3

When was peel made home secretary

Answer 3

1823

Question 4

What did Liverpool follow up the Peterloo Massacre with?

Answer 4

The Six Acts 1819

Question 5

Who led the Pentrich uprising in 1817?

Answer 5

Jeremiah Brandreth, it was seen as the first working class led upsrising

Question 6

Who was PM at the time of the GRA and what was his party?

Answer 6

Earl Grey, Whig

Question 7

Who was the leader of the catholic association?

Answer 7

Daniel O’connor, he won the county clare election in 1829

Question 8

When were the corn laws first passed?

Answer 8

1815 following the end of the Napoleonic Wars

Question 9

Who represented Britain at the congress of Vienna in 1914-15?

Answer 9

Castlereagh

Question 10

Who replaced castlereagh as Foreign secretary in 1822?

Answer 10

Canning, he was seen as more liberal

Question 11

When did peel give his tamworth manifesto?

Answer 11

December 1834, before becoming PM for 100 days, it accepted the GRA

Question 12

What did peel do while in opposition?

Answer 12

Supported whig policies, such as the Municipal corporations act

Question 13

When was the first factory act and what party passed it?

Answer 13

1833, Whig, peel passed a further act in 1844

Question 14

What did the 1833 factory act do?

Answer 14

restricted children’s working hours and brought in two hours schooling

Question 15

What did the 1844 factory acts do?

Answer 15

Said that children aged 8-13 could only work 6.5 hours a day and women and teenage children could not work more than 12 hours a day

Question 16

Who led the chartists?

Answer 16

Lovett (moral force) Fergus O’Connor (physical force)

Question 17

When were the three chartist bills?

Answer 17

1839, 1842, 1848

Question 18

How many aims did the chartists achieve?

Answer 18

None at the time but 5/6 now

Question 19

When was MArshall aid introduced?

Answer 19

1947, it paid out over $13 billion

Question 20

What did the USSR do about marshall aid?

Answer 20

Blocked in in eastern europe and accused it of being dollar imperialism

Question 21

What made the american’s commit to marshall aid?

Answer 21

The fall of czechoslovakia in 1948 to communism

Question 22

What was the USSR’s response to Marshall aid?

Answer 22

Comecon

Question 23

Who became leader of hungary in 1956

Answer 23

Nagy

Question 24

What did Nagy want hungary to do?

Answer 24

leave the warsaw pact

Question 25

How many people died in hungary when tanks were sent in?

Answer 25

3,500

Question 26

When did Gorbachev come to power and what were his two main policies?

Answer 26

1985, Glasnost and Perestroika

Question 27

When did the Berlin wall fall?

Answer 27

9th November 1989, all other eastern European countries fell by xmas

Question 28

Who ruled the GDR during the 1970s-80s? And what was their secret police called?

Answer 28

Honecker and the Stasi

Question 29

Who assassinated Alexander II in 1881?

Answer 29

The People’s Will

Question 30

What were the local governments set up under Alexander II called?

Answer 30

Zemstva

Question 31

What was the secret police under the Tsars?

Answer 31

Third Section - Alex II

Okrahna- Alex II/Alex III/ Nicholas II

Question 32

When did the civil war start and who was it between?

Answer 32

1918, after the treaty of Brest-litovsk, between the reds whites and greens

Question 33

What naval base rebelled in 1921?

Answer 33

Kronstadt which had been loyally Bolshevik, Lenin called this the spark from War communism to NEP

Question 34

Who did Khrushchev battle with after Stalin’s death?

Answer 34

Beria, Malenkov

Question 35

When did bloody sunday take place?

Answer 35

1905, sparked a year of revolution

Question 36

What limited Russia’s victory in the Russo-Turkish war?

Answer 36

The Treaty of Berlin