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September 1990 5-a-day

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September 1990

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st September 1990Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  2. 2nd September 1990How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  3. 3rd September 1990On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  4. 4th September 1990What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  5. 5th September 1990What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  6. 6th September 1990Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  7. 7th September 1990Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  8. 8th September 1990What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  9. 9th September 1990Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  10. 10th September 1990What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  11. 11th September 1990Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  12. 12th September 1990Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  13. 13th September 1990In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  14. 14th September 1990By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  15. 15th September 1990How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  16. 16th September 1990Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  17. 17th September 1990What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  18. 18th September 1990Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  19. 19th September 1990What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  20. 20th September 1990Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  21. 21st September 1990What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  22. 22nd September 1990In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  23. 23rd September 1990Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  24. 24th September 1990In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  25. 25th September 1990What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  26. 26th September 1990In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  27. 27th September 1990Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  28. 28th September 1990Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  29. 29th September 1990Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  30. 30th September 1990Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.