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April 1985

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st April 1985How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  2. 2nd April 1985Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  3. 3rd April 1985What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  4. 4th April 1985What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  5. 5th April 1985Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  6. 6th April 1985Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  7. 7th April 1985Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  8. 8th April 1985Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  9. 9th April 1985What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  10. 10th April 1985Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  11. 11th April 1985Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  12. 12th April 1985Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  13. 13th April 1985Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  14. 14th April 1985How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  15. 15th April 1985Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  16. 16th April 1985What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  17. 17th April 1985Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  18. 18th April 1985What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  19. 19th April 1985Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  20. 20th April 1985What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  21. 21st April 1985In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  22. 22nd April 1985What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  23. 23rd April 1985In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  24. 24th April 1985In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  25. 25th April 1985In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  26. 26th April 1985Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  27. 27th April 1985What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  28. 28th April 1985How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  29. 29th April 1985Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  30. 30th April 1985In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?