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April 1987

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st April 1987Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  2. 2nd April 1987In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  3. 3rd April 1987By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  4. 4th April 1987How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  5. 5th April 1987Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  6. 6th April 1987What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  7. 7th April 1987Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  8. 8th April 1987What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  9. 9th April 1987Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  10. 10th April 1987What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  11. 11th April 1987In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  12. 12th April 1987Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  13. 13th April 1987In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  14. 14th April 1987What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  15. 15th April 1987In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  16. 16th April 1987Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  17. 17th April 1987Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  18. 18th April 1987Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  19. 19th April 1987Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  20. 20th April 1987In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  21. 21st April 1987Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  22. 22nd April 1987Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  23. 23rd April 1987What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  24. 24th April 1987Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  25. 25th April 1987Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  26. 26th April 1987Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  27. 27th April 1987What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  28. 28th April 1987Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  29. 29th April 1987In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  30. 30th April 1987What is Passchendaele also known as?