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April 1986

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st April 1986Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  2. 2nd April 1986What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  3. 3rd April 1986Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  4. 4th April 1986What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  5. 5th April 1986Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  6. 6th April 1986Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  7. 7th April 1986In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  8. 8th April 1986What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  9. 9th April 1986How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  10. 10th April 1986Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  11. 11th April 1986What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  12. 12th April 1986On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  13. 13th April 1986Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  14. 14th April 1986Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  15. 15th April 1986What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  16. 16th April 1986In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  17. 17th April 1986In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  18. 18th April 1986In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  19. 19th April 1986Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  20. 20th April 1986In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  21. 21st April 1986Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  22. 22nd April 1986In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  23. 23rd April 1986What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  24. 24th April 1986Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  25. 25th April 1986In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  26. 26th April 1986Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  27. 27th April 1986When did Germany formally reunify?
  28. 28th April 1986What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  29. 29th April 1986Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  30. 30th April 1986Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?