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November 1987

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st November 1987What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  2. 2nd November 1987Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  3. 3rd November 1987Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  4. 4th November 1987What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  5. 5th November 1987Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  6. 6th November 1987What was the Privy Council?
  7. 7th November 1987What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  8. 8th November 1987Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  9. 9th November 1987Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  10. 10th November 1987What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  11. 11th November 1987What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  12. 12th November 1987In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  13. 13th November 1987Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  14. 14th November 1987Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  15. 15th November 1987What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  16. 16th November 1987What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  17. 17th November 1987What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  18. 18th November 1987Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  19. 19th November 1987What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  20. 20th November 1987Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  21. 21st November 1987Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  22. 22nd November 1987What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  23. 23rd November 1987What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  24. 24th November 1987Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  25. 25th November 1987In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  26. 26th November 1987Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  27. 27th November 1987Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  28. 28th November 1987What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  29. 29th November 1987How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  30. 30th November 1987What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?