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June 1990 5-a-day

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June 1990

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st June 1990By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  2. 2nd June 1990Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  3. 3rd June 1990Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  4. 4th June 1990How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  5. 5th June 1990Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  6. 6th June 1990What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  7. 7th June 1990What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  8. 8th June 1990Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  9. 9th June 1990Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  10. 10th June 1990Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  11. 11th June 1990Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  12. 12th June 1990What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  13. 13th June 1990Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  14. 14th June 1990Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  15. 15th June 1990Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  16. 16th June 1990Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  17. 17th June 1990How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  18. 18th June 1990Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  19. 19th June 1990What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  20. 20th June 1990Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  21. 21st June 1990What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  22. 22nd June 1990Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  23. 23rd June 1990What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  24. 24th June 1990In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  25. 25th June 1990What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  26. 26th June 1990In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  27. 27th June 1990In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  28. 28th June 1990In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  29. 29th June 1990Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  30. 30th June 1990What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?