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September 1988 5-a-day

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September 1988

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st September 1988Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  2. 2nd September 1988When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  3. 3rd September 1988What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  4. 4th September 1988What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  5. 5th September 1988What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  6. 6th September 1988What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  7. 7th September 1988Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  8. 8th September 1988In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  9. 9th September 1988By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  10. 10th September 1988Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  11. 11th September 1988Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  12. 12th September 1988How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  13. 13th September 1988Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  14. 14th September 1988What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  15. 15th September 1988What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  16. 16th September 1988Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  17. 17th September 1988Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  18. 18th September 1988Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  19. 19th September 1988Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  20. 20th September 1988What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  21. 21st September 1988Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  22. 22nd September 1988Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  23. 23rd September 1988Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  24. 24th September 1988Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  25. 25th September 1988How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  26. 26th September 1988Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  27. 27th September 1988What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  28. 28th September 1988Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  29. 29th September 1988What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  30. 30th September 1988Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?