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November 1981

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st November 1981How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  2. 2nd November 1981Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  3. 3rd November 1981What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  4. 4th November 1981Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  5. 5th November 1981What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  6. 6th November 1981Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  7. 7th November 1981What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  8. 8th November 1981In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  9. 9th November 1981What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  10. 10th November 1981In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  11. 11th November 1981In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  12. 12th November 1981In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  13. 13th November 1981Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  14. 14th November 1981What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  15. 15th November 1981How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  16. 16th November 1981Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  17. 17th November 1981In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  18. 18th November 1981Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  19. 19th November 1981What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  20. 20th November 1981Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  21. 21st November 1981Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  22. 22nd November 1981Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  23. 23rd November 1981Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  24. 24th November 1981What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  25. 25th November 1981Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  26. 26th November 1981What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  27. 27th November 1981What is Passchendaele also known as?
  28. 28th November 1981In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  29. 29th November 1981What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  30. 30th November 1981Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.