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CCEA GCSE History Northern Ireland 1965 to 1998 quiz

16questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. When was NICRA founded?

  2. What did the civil rights movement campaign for?

  3. Who was Prime Minister of Northern Ireland from 1963 and tried to modernise?

  4. What happened at Burntollet Bridge in January 1969?

  5. When were British troops first deployed on the streets of Northern Ireland?

  6. Why did internment in 1971 backfire?

  7. How many marchers were shot dead by soldiers on Bloody Sunday, 30 January 1972?

  8. What happened to the Stormont parliament in March 1972?

  9. What two things did the Sunningdale Agreement of 1973 create?

  10. What brought down the Sunningdale power-sharing Executive in 1974?

  11. Who was the republican hunger striker elected an MP who died in 1981?

  12. What was the main political effect of the 1981 hunger strikes?

  13. What did the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985 give the Republic of Ireland?

  14. What principle did the Downing Street Declaration of 1993 affirm?

  15. When was the Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement reached?

  16. Which body links Belfast and Dublin under the Good Friday Agreement?