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April 1981

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st April 1981Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  2. 2nd April 1981Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  3. 3rd April 1981Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  4. 4th April 1981Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  5. 5th April 1981What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  6. 6th April 1981What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  7. 7th April 1981What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  8. 8th April 1981Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  9. 9th April 1981What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  10. 10th April 1981In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  11. 11th April 1981Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  12. 12th April 1981When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  13. 13th April 1981What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  14. 14th April 1981What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  15. 15th April 1981In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  16. 16th April 1981What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  17. 17th April 1981Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  18. 18th April 1981What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  19. 19th April 1981How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  20. 20th April 1981Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  21. 21st April 1981Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  22. 22nd April 1981How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  23. 23rd April 1981What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  24. 24th April 1981Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  25. 25th April 1981What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  26. 26th April 1981Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  27. 27th April 1981Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  28. 28th April 1981What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  29. 29th April 1981Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  30. 30th April 1981What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?