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September 1981 5-a-day

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September 1981

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st September 1981What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  2. 2nd September 1981Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  3. 3rd September 1981What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  4. 4th September 1981Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  5. 5th September 1981On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  6. 6th September 1981Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  7. 7th September 1981Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  8. 8th September 1981What was the Privy Council?
  9. 9th September 1981What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  10. 10th September 1981In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  11. 11th September 1981Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  12. 12th September 1981Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  13. 13th September 1981What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  14. 14th September 1981In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  15. 15th September 1981In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  16. 16th September 1981What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  17. 17th September 1981What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  18. 18th September 1981What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  19. 19th September 1981What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  20. 20th September 1981When did Germany formally reunify?
  21. 21st September 1981What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  22. 22nd September 1981Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  23. 23rd September 1981Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  24. 24th September 1981What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  25. 25th September 1981Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  26. 26th September 1981Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  27. 27th September 1981Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  28. 28th September 1981Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  29. 29th September 1981Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  30. 30th September 1981What was a Gauleiter?