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October 1981

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st October 1981What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  2. 2nd October 1981What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  3. 3rd October 1981What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  4. 4th October 1981What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  5. 5th October 1981On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  6. 6th October 1981What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  7. 7th October 1981In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  8. 8th October 1981Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  9. 9th October 1981When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  10. 10th October 1981What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  11. 11th October 1981What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  12. 12th October 1981What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  13. 13th October 1981What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  14. 14th October 1981Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  15. 15th October 1981In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  16. 16th October 1981By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  17. 17th October 1981Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  18. 18th October 1981Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  19. 19th October 1981How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  20. 20th October 1981Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  21. 21st October 1981What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  22. 22nd October 1981What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  23. 23rd October 1981Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  24. 24th October 1981Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  25. 25th October 1981Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  26. 26th October 1981Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  27. 27th October 1981What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  28. 28th October 1981Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  29. 29th October 1981Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  30. 30th October 1981Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  31. 31st October 1981Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?