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December 1971 5-a-day

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December 1971

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st December 1971When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  2. 2nd December 1971In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  3. 3rd December 1971What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  4. 4th December 1971Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  5. 5th December 1971What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  6. 6th December 1971Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  7. 7th December 1971In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  8. 8th December 1971What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  9. 9th December 1971Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  10. 10th December 1971Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  11. 11th December 1971How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  12. 12th December 1971When did Germany formally reunify?
  13. 13th December 1971What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  14. 14th December 1971What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  15. 15th December 1971Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  16. 16th December 1971Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  17. 17th December 1971Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  18. 18th December 1971Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  19. 19th December 1971Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  20. 20th December 1971Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  21. 21st December 1971Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  22. 22nd December 1971What was a Gauleiter?
  23. 23rd December 1971What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  24. 24th December 1971How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  25. 25th December 1971Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  26. 26th December 1971What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  27. 27th December 1971On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  28. 28th December 1971What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  29. 29th December 1971Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  30. 30th December 1971What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  31. 31st December 1971In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?