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When did Louis Pasteur publish Germ Theory?
1861
What form of transport was at the centre of the Mukden incident?
A train of the Japanese owned South Manchurian railway.
What connected the Saar and the League of Nations?
The Saar had been given to the the League of Nations for 15 years as a result of the Treaty of Versailles. This was due to expire in 1935.
What are two men with surnames Chain and Florey famous for?
Developing the work of Fleming on penicillin and antibiotics
What name is given to the type of doctor who performs operations?
Surgeon
Which theme is John Hunter connected to?
Surgery and Anatomy.
What name is given to the type of doctor who performs operations?
Surgeon
In what month and year was the Treaty of Versailles signed?
June 1919
Which of the League of Nations organisation listed below met only once a year? A. The Assembly B. The Council C. The Permanent court of International Justice D. The Secretariat E. The special commissions
A
What is an epidemic?
A disease which spreads widely, harms/kills lots of people and is very difficult to stop.
When was John of Aderne around?
In the Middle AGes.
What were mandates?
Germany’s colonies in Africa which, as part of the Treaty of Versailles, were in the control of the League of Nations (especially Britain and France).
In what year and period did Fleming discover penicllin?
1928 - twentieth century
Why was Democracy a problem for the Kaiser in the early 1900s?
The Kaiser’s right wing friends were declining in influence. Left wing parties (concerned with workers rights) were growing.
What famous book did Avicenna write?
The Canon of Medicine
When was the printing press invented?
1451.
What did Edward Jenner discover?
Smallpox vaccination using cowpox
On what condition were the Aland islands granted to Finland in 1921?
Finland was not allowed to build military bases on the islands.
What was not allowed in the Rhineland and what was this called?
No troops, weapons or fortifications. This is called being demilitarised.
Which country lost out in the Treaty of Sevres?
Turkey
What was Edwin Chadwick’s big discovery?
That high poor rate in some towns resulted from some people being too unwell to work due to poor living conditions.
What was the ‘stab in the back’ myth?
A belief held by many Germans that at the end of WW1 they had not really lost but had been betrayed by their own leaders, namely the Weimar republic.
In a Christian church hospital of the Middle Ages, who would treat your illness?
Nobody. Christians believed God would cure you, they only made you comfortable and prayed for you.
What was the year and details of the Kaiser’s second Naval law?
- Doubled the number of battleships to be built each year (to 38).
What was the political impact of the Kaiser’s naval laws?
They won him lots of support as played upon people’s sense of patriotism.
What did Greece do to Bulgaria in 1925?
They invaded it after Greek soldiers had been killed on the Greek/Bulgarian border.
In which country is Manchuria based?
China
What invention of 1451 was as important to communications as the internet in modern times?
The printing press.
What is unusual about the League of Nations and America?
America proposed the creation of the League but did not join. This is because President Wilson was blocked by the Senate of his government.
In what year did Christiaan Barnard perform the first heart transplant?
1967
What is the negative way some people remember Stresemann?
That he didn’t properly fix any of Germany’s problems. He just used loans from America to make people think they were fixed.
When did Louis Pasteur publish Germ Theory?
1861
What did George Clemenceau want from the Paris Peace Conference?
Revenge for French losses and damage in WW1, to cripple Germany militarily, money to rebuild, make France less vulnerable to future attack.
What was the outcome of the Upper Silesia plebiscite?
60% of votes won by Germany. However, Poland did not accept this result so the area was divided up with rural areas going to Germany and industrial areas going to Poland.
What are two men with surnames Crick and Watson famous for?
Discovering DNA
What sort of pictures would you have found in Vesalius’ book?
Detailed drawings of the human body.
What are the years of the Renaissance?
1400-1750
Why was Galen so popular with the Christian church?
He taught his students that the human body fitted together in a well designed whole. This suggested that a greater being (God) had designed the human body. That’s why Christians liked him.
When did Italy leave the League of Nations?
May 1936
Which of the League of Nations organisation listed below needed a unanimous decision for it to happen? A. The Assembly B. The Council C. The Permanent court of International Justice D. The Secretariat E. The special commissions
A
How was the Weimar constitution organised?
President – Chancellor – Reichstag (German parliament) – people.
What and when was the ‘Red Rising’ in the Ruhr?
1920: A group of workers, led by Communists who were angry about pay and working conditions. They occupied the Ruhr region of Germany and took over its raw materials but were beaten by the German army and Friekorps/.
What was cauterising?
Sealing a wound and stopping it from bleeding by busing red hot iron.
Which of the League of Nations organisation listed below met four times a year? A. The Assembly B. The Council C. The Permanent court of International Justice D. The Secretariat E. The special commissions
b
What medical options were available to unwell people during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance?
Barber-surgeons, Apothecaries, Wise-women, Quacks.
What was the military impact of the Kaiser’s naval laws?
Encouraged war.
What was the covenant of the League of Nations?
An agreement between all the countries in the League that they would deal with aggression by getting countries to talk through problems, be ready to tell the guilty country when they were in the wrong and use economic sanctions as punishments.
How did astrology impact medicine in the Middle Ages?
People started to think that the movement of the stars and the planets could explain illness or give the best time to conduct an operation.
Which country lost land in the Treaty of St Germain?
Austria
Who were the Friekorps?
Groups of ex-soldiers who continued serving despite not being paid in attempt to help Germany through its troubled times.
What is public health the story of?
The story of what the government in any time period did to improve the health of its people.
-What did Edwin Chadwick’s discovery lead to being passed?
The 1848 Public Health act?
Why might someone trying to avoid the Black Death sit in a sewer?
Because the smell there would be worse than the bad smells that they thought would bring the Black Death.
What happened to General Tellini and his men when they went to survey the Greek/Albanian border?
They were murdered.
What was Article 48?
Said that in an emergency the President could make laws without the Reichstag.
How much did Germany have to pay in reparations for WW1?
£6,600 million
In what year was the Saar plebiscite?
1935
How were Galen’s dissection operations limited?
They were often conducted on animals not people.
What did Harvey develop to help him prove how blood circulated around the body?
Think rods that could be pushed into veins to prove the direction of blood flow.
-What were Koch’s three contributions towards discovering the causes of disease?
Solid medium, staining, method.
Why did Japan want Manchuria in 1931?
The Great Depression had ruined Japan’s silk industry (America was a big customer), Manchuria had vast natural resources and good farmland, Japan already had factories, the South Manchurian railway and the Kwantung army in Manchuria.
In what year was the ‘Great stink’ in London?
1858
What is Doctor Christiaan Barnard famous for?
Conducting the first human heart transplant in 1967.
In what year and period did Joseph Bazalgette begin building London’s underground sewer system?
1858 - industrial
What did Lord Lytton conclude?
Japan was in the wrong and should not have invaded Manchuria.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
President of the USA in 1919.
How did the Kasier try to solve the problem of Democracy?
The Kaiser used nationalism to get the support of the upper and middle classes.
What are the three themes comprising the History of Medicine?
Disease and infection, surgery and anatomy, public health.
How did the factor chance help Pare?
It was by chance that he ran out of boiling oil.
What has Versailles got to do with the Paris Peace Conference?
It was where the Paris Peace conference took place.
What was the Christian attitude to dissection in the Middle Ages?
It was not allowed at first. Later, it was allowed in medical schools but under strictly controlled conditions.
In what year and period did Joseph Lister publish details of carbolic spray?
1867 - industrial
In what year did Germany join the League of Nations?
1926
What would a doctor find that was useful in the Canon of Medicine by Avicenna?
The medical properties of 760 different drugs and chapters on medical problems such as anorexia and obesity.
In what year was the ‘Great stink’ in London?
1858
Define natural explanations of disease.
Explanations based on physical evidence, observation and scientific deduction (even if the science is wrong).
When was the Treaty of St Germain?
September 1919
When writing about the League of Nations in a quick form, should you write ‘LON’ or ‘the League?’
‘the League’
What ‘five giants’ did William Beveridge want to beat in his report of 1942?
disease, want (need), ignorance, idleness, squalor (poor living conditions).
How many months after the Mukden incident was the Lytton report published?
13 months
In what year were these challenges for the League: invasion of Vilna, Aaland islands, Upper Silesia.
1921
What is disease and infection the story of?
The story of what people throughout History believed made them unwell and how they tried to treat illnesses.
Which country wanted to invade Manchuria?
Japan
What did Rhazes achieve?
The first accurate descriptions of measles and smallpox.
In what country was the Saar region?
Germany
The Treaty of Lausanne is famous for reversing the tough treatment that Turkey was given in the Treaty of …………………………. ?
Sevres
Who was David Lloyd George?
Prime Minister of Britain in 1919.
Why was Socialism a problem for the Kaiser in the early 1900s?
The gap between the rich and poor had widened due to industrialisation. Poorly paid workers had joined trade unions to try to force the Kaiser to improve their conditions.
