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February 1981

28 sheets · 140 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st February 1981Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  2. 2nd February 1981In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  3. 3rd February 1981What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  4. 4th February 1981How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  5. 5th February 1981Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  6. 6th February 1981What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  7. 7th February 1981On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  8. 8th February 1981Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  9. 9th February 1981Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  10. 10th February 1981What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  11. 11th February 1981In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  12. 12th February 1981In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  13. 13th February 1981In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  14. 14th February 1981Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  15. 15th February 1981In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  16. 16th February 1981Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  17. 17th February 1981In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  18. 18th February 1981What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  19. 19th February 1981Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  20. 20th February 1981In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  21. 21st February 1981Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  22. 22nd February 1981When did Germany formally reunify?
  23. 23rd February 1981What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  24. 24th February 1981Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  25. 25th February 1981Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  26. 26th February 1981Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  27. 27th February 1981Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  28. 28th February 1981Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.