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September 1989 5-a-day

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September 1989

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st September 1989What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  2. 2nd September 1989Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  3. 3rd September 1989What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  4. 4th September 1989Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  5. 5th September 1989Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  6. 6th September 1989Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  7. 7th September 1989How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  8. 8th September 1989Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  9. 9th September 1989In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  10. 10th September 1989What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  11. 11th September 1989Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  12. 12th September 1989Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  13. 13th September 1989What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  14. 14th September 1989Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  15. 15th September 1989What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  16. 16th September 1989Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  17. 17th September 1989Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  18. 18th September 1989In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  19. 19th September 1989What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  20. 20th September 1989How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  21. 21st September 1989Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  22. 22nd September 1989What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  23. 23rd September 1989On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  24. 24th September 1989Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  25. 25th September 1989Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  26. 26th September 1989What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  27. 27th September 1989In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  28. 28th September 1989In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  29. 29th September 1989In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  30. 30th September 1989Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?