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August 1983

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st August 1983What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  2. 2nd August 1983In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  3. 3rd August 1983In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  4. 4th August 1983In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  5. 5th August 1983Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  6. 6th August 1983What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  7. 7th August 1983How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  8. 8th August 1983Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  9. 9th August 1983In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  10. 10th August 1983Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  11. 11th August 1983What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  12. 12th August 1983Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  13. 13th August 1983Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  14. 14th August 1983Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  15. 15th August 1983Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  16. 16th August 1983What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  17. 17th August 1983Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  18. 18th August 1983What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  19. 19th August 1983What is Passchendaele also known as?
  20. 20th August 1983In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  21. 21st August 1983What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  22. 22nd August 1983Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  23. 23rd August 1983Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  24. 24th August 1983What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  25. 25th August 1983Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  26. 26th August 1983Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  27. 27th August 1983In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  28. 28th August 1983Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  29. 29th August 1983What was the Privy Council?
  30. 30th August 1983What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  31. 31st August 1983What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?