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March 1989 5-a-day

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March 1989

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st March 1989When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  2. 2nd March 1989In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  3. 3rd March 1989What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  4. 4th March 1989Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  5. 5th March 1989What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  6. 6th March 1989Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  7. 7th March 1989In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  8. 8th March 1989What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  9. 9th March 1989Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  10. 10th March 1989Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  11. 11th March 1989How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  12. 12th March 1989When did Germany formally reunify?
  13. 13th March 1989What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  14. 14th March 1989What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  15. 15th March 1989Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  16. 16th March 1989Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  17. 17th March 1989Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  18. 18th March 1989Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  19. 19th March 1989Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  20. 20th March 1989Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  21. 21st March 1989Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  22. 22nd March 1989What was a Gauleiter?
  23. 23rd March 1989What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  24. 24th March 1989How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  25. 25th March 1989Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  26. 26th March 1989What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  27. 27th March 1989On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  28. 28th March 1989What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  29. 29th March 1989Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  30. 30th March 1989What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  31. 31st March 1989In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?