Chapter 3: History — Set 11
Set 11 of chapter 3 (History): 9 questions. Tap an answer to reveal whether you are right and why.
Question 1 · Chapter 3: History
In the famous 'Dambusters' raid of May 1943, RAF bombers attacked dams in Germany's Ruhr valley using a special new weapon designed by Barnes Wallis. What was it?
Operation Chastise in May 1943 used Barnes Wallis's 'bouncing bomb', which skipped over torpedo nets across the reservoir before sinking and exploding against the dam wall.
Question 2 · Chapter 3: History
The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continuous campaign of the Second World War, was the struggle to keep Britain supplied by sea against attacks by which enemy weapon?
German U-boats hunted the convoys carrying food, fuel and weapons to Britain across the Atlantic; escorted convoys, aircraft and codebreaking gradually turned the tide by 1943.
Question 3 · Chapter 3: History
The Spitfire, the most famous British fighter aircraft of the Second World War, was designed under the leadership of which engineer?
Reginald J. Mitchell, chief designer at Supermarine, led the team that created the Spitfire; he died in 1937, before the aircraft's finest hour in the Battle of Britain.
Question 4 · Chapter 3: History
The Suez Crisis of 1956, a humiliating episode for Britain, began when President Nasser of Egypt did what?
When Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal in July 1956, Britain and France plotted with Israel to retake it by force; international pressure, especially from the United States, forced them to withdraw.
Question 5 · Chapter 3: History
British rule in India came to an end in 1947, when the country was partitioned into India and which new state, created for Muslim-majority regions?
In August 1947 British India was partitioned into the independent dominions of India and Pakistan; Pakistan's eastern wing later broke away in 1971 to become Bangladesh.
Question 6 · Chapter 3: History
The Open University, founded in 1969, was a new kind of university because it taught its students mainly in what way?
The Open University, chartered in 1969, opened higher education to adults without formal qualifications, teaching them at home through correspondence materials and BBC broadcasts.
Question 7 · Chapter 3: History
Which English king actively encouraged Flemish weavers to settle in England, hoping their skills would strengthen the country's cloth trade?
Edward III encouraged skilled weavers from Flanders to come and settle in England, offering them protection and encouragement so that their knowledge would build up English cloth-making.
Question 8 · Chapter 3: History
Which TWO of these women made their names through pioneering achievements in flight?
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Amy Johnson achieved worldwide fame in 1930 as the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia, and Helen Sharman was the first Briton to travel into space, flying to the Mir space station in 1991. Millicent Fawcett led the peaceful Suffragist campaign for women's votes, and Emily Davison was the suffragette who died at the Derby in 1913 — neither was a pioneer of flight.
Question 9 · Chapter 3: History
During the Civil War of the 1640s, the king's opponents were known as 'Roundheads'. Who were they?
The Roundheads were the supporters of Parliament in the Civil War, nicknamed for their plain, short-cropped hairstyles. They fought against Charles I and his Royalist supporters, the Cavaliers.
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