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January 1988 5-a-day

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January 1988

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st January 1988What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  2. 2nd January 1988On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  3. 3rd January 1988Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  4. 4th January 1988Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  5. 5th January 1988What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  6. 6th January 1988In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  7. 7th January 1988In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  8. 8th January 1988In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  9. 9th January 1988Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  10. 10th January 1988In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  11. 11th January 1988Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  12. 12th January 1988In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  13. 13th January 1988What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  14. 14th January 1988Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  15. 15th January 1988In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  16. 16th January 1988Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  17. 17th January 1988When did Germany formally reunify?
  18. 18th January 1988What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  19. 19th January 1988Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  20. 20th January 1988Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  21. 21st January 1988Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  22. 22nd January 1988Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  23. 23rd January 1988Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  24. 24th January 1988Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  25. 25th January 1988What is Passchendaele also known as?
  26. 26th January 1988In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  27. 27th January 1988What was a Gauleiter?
  28. 28th January 1988What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  29. 29th January 1988Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  30. 30th January 1988What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  31. 31st January 1988Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?