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November 1982 5-a-day

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November 1982

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st November 1982Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  2. 2nd November 1982What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  3. 3rd November 1982In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  4. 4th November 1982In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  5. 5th November 1982In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  6. 6th November 1982Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  7. 7th November 1982In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  8. 8th November 1982Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  9. 9th November 1982In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  10. 10th November 1982What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  11. 11th November 1982Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  12. 12th November 1982In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  13. 13th November 1982Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  14. 14th November 1982When did Germany formally reunify?
  15. 15th November 1982What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  16. 16th November 1982Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  17. 17th November 1982Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  18. 18th November 1982Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  19. 19th November 1982Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  20. 20th November 1982Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  21. 21st November 1982Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  22. 22nd November 1982What is Passchendaele also known as?
  23. 23rd November 1982In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  24. 24th November 1982What was a Gauleiter?
  25. 25th November 1982What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  26. 26th November 1982Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  27. 27th November 1982What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  28. 28th November 1982Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  29. 29th November 1982On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  30. 30th November 1982What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?