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September 1986 5-a-day

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September 1986

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st September 1986What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  2. 2nd September 1986Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  3. 3rd September 1986Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  4. 4th September 1986In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  5. 5th September 1986By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  6. 6th September 1986What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  7. 7th September 1986What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  8. 8th September 1986What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  9. 9th September 1986Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  10. 10th September 1986What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  11. 11th September 1986In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  12. 12th September 1986Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  13. 13th September 1986When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  14. 14th September 1986Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  15. 15th September 1986What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  16. 16th September 1986What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  17. 17th September 1986What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  18. 18th September 1986Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  19. 19th September 1986Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  20. 20th September 1986Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  21. 21st September 1986Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  22. 22nd September 1986Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  23. 23rd September 1986How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  24. 24th September 1986Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  25. 25th September 1986What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  26. 26th September 1986What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  27. 27th September 1986Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  28. 28th September 1986Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  29. 29th September 1986What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  30. 30th September 1986Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.