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December 1988 5-a-day

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December 1988

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st December 1988When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  2. 2nd December 1988Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  3. 3rd December 1988What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  4. 4th December 1988Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  5. 5th December 1988What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  6. 6th December 1988Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  7. 7th December 1988What was a Gauleiter?
  8. 8th December 1988What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  9. 9th December 1988Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  10. 10th December 1988Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  11. 11th December 1988How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  12. 12th December 1988On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  13. 13th December 1988What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  14. 14th December 1988What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  15. 15th December 1988Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  16. 16th December 1988Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  17. 17th December 1988What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  18. 18th December 1988Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  19. 19th December 1988What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  20. 20th December 1988Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  21. 21st December 1988Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  22. 22nd December 1988In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  23. 23rd December 1988By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  24. 24th December 1988How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  25. 25th December 1988Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  26. 26th December 1988What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  27. 27th December 1988Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  28. 28th December 1988What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  29. 29th December 1988Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  30. 30th December 1988What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  31. 31st December 1988In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?