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April 1989 5-a-day

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April 1989

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st April 1989What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  2. 2nd April 1989In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  3. 3rd April 1989What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  4. 4th April 1989In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  5. 5th April 1989Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  6. 6th April 1989In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  7. 7th April 1989By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  8. 8th April 1989Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  9. 9th April 1989In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  10. 10th April 1989Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  11. 11th April 1989Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  12. 12th April 1989What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  13. 13th April 1989Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  14. 14th April 1989Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  15. 15th April 1989Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  16. 16th April 1989Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  17. 17th April 1989Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  18. 18th April 1989What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  19. 19th April 1989What is Passchendaele also known as?
  20. 20th April 1989In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  21. 21st April 1989Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  22. 22nd April 1989Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  23. 23rd April 1989Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  24. 24th April 1989What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  25. 25th April 1989Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  26. 26th April 1989Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  27. 27th April 1989What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  28. 28th April 1989Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  29. 29th April 1989What was the Privy Council?
  30. 30th April 1989What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?