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December 1986 5-a-day

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December 1986

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st December 1986Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  2. 2nd December 1986Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  3. 3rd December 1986What was a Gauleiter?
  4. 4th December 1986What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  5. 5th December 1986What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  6. 6th December 1986What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  7. 7th December 1986What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  8. 8th December 1986On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  9. 9th December 1986What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  10. 10th December 1986In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  11. 11th December 1986Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  12. 12th December 1986When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  13. 13th December 1986What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  14. 14th December 1986What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  15. 15th December 1986What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  16. 16th December 1986What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  17. 17th December 1986Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  18. 18th December 1986In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  19. 19th December 1986By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  20. 20th December 1986Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  21. 21st December 1986Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  22. 22nd December 1986How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  23. 23rd December 1986Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  24. 24th December 1986What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  25. 25th December 1986What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  26. 26th December 1986Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  27. 27th December 1986Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  28. 28th December 1986Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  29. 29th December 1986Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  30. 30th December 1986What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  31. 31st December 1986Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?