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May 1983 5-a-day

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May 1983

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st May 1983What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  2. 2nd May 1983In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  3. 3rd May 1983What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  4. 4th May 1983In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  5. 5th May 1983What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  6. 6th May 1983In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  7. 7th May 1983Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  8. 8th May 1983What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  9. 9th May 1983Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  10. 10th May 1983Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  11. 11th May 1983In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  12. 12th May 1983Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  13. 13th May 1983Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  14. 14th May 1983In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  15. 15th May 1983Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  16. 16th May 1983Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  17. 17th May 1983Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  18. 18th May 1983What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  19. 19th May 1983Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  20. 20th May 1983What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  21. 21st May 1983What is Passchendaele also known as?
  22. 22nd May 1983In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  23. 23rd May 1983In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  24. 24th May 1983What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  25. 25th May 1983Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  26. 26th May 1983What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  27. 27th May 1983Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  28. 28th May 1983On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  29. 29th May 1983Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  30. 30th May 1983Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  31. 31st May 1983What was the Privy Council?