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October 1984

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st October 1984Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  2. 2nd October 1984Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  3. 3rd October 1984How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  4. 4th October 1984What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  5. 5th October 1984Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  6. 6th October 1984What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  7. 7th October 1984Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  8. 8th October 1984Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  9. 9th October 1984What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  10. 10th October 1984Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  11. 11th October 1984What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  12. 12th October 1984Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  13. 13th October 1984Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  14. 14th October 1984What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  15. 15th October 1984Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  16. 16th October 1984How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  17. 17th October 1984Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  18. 18th October 1984What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  19. 19th October 1984Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  20. 20th October 1984In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  21. 21st October 1984Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  22. 22nd October 1984What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  23. 23rd October 1984In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  24. 24th October 1984What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  25. 25th October 1984In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  26. 26th October 1984What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  27. 27th October 1984In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  28. 28th October 1984Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  29. 29th October 1984In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  30. 30th October 1984What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  31. 31st October 1984Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.