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July 1981

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st July 1981Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  2. 2nd July 1981In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  3. 3rd July 1981By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  4. 4th July 1981What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  5. 5th July 1981What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  6. 6th July 1981What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  7. 7th July 1981Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  8. 8th July 1981What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  9. 9th July 1981In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  10. 10th July 1981Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  11. 11th July 1981When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  12. 12th July 1981Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  13. 13th July 1981What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  14. 14th July 1981What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  15. 15th July 1981What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  16. 16th July 1981Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  17. 17th July 1981Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  18. 18th July 1981Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  19. 19th July 1981Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  20. 20th July 1981Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  21. 21st July 1981How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  22. 22nd July 1981Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  23. 23rd July 1981What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  24. 24th July 1981What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  25. 25th July 1981Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  26. 26th July 1981Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  27. 27th July 1981What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  28. 28th July 1981Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  29. 29th July 1981In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  30. 30th July 1981Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  31. 31st July 1981Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.