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October 1986 5-a-day

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October 1986

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st October 1986In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  2. 2nd October 1986Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  3. 3rd October 1986Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  4. 4th October 1986What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  5. 5th October 1986How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  6. 6th October 1986How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  7. 7th October 1986Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  8. 8th October 1986What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  9. 9th October 1986What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  10. 10th October 1986Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  11. 11th October 1986Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  12. 12th October 1986What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  13. 13th October 1986In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  14. 14th October 1986What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  15. 15th October 1986In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  16. 16th October 1986What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  17. 17th October 1986In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  18. 18th October 1986Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  19. 19th October 1986What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  20. 20th October 1986Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  21. 21st October 1986Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  22. 22nd October 1986In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  23. 23rd October 1986Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  24. 24th October 1986Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  25. 25th October 1986In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  26. 26th October 1986Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  27. 27th October 1986Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  28. 28th October 1986Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  29. 29th October 1986What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  30. 30th October 1986Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  31. 31st October 1986What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?