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June 1991 5-a-day

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June 1991

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st June 1991In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  2. 2nd June 1991What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  3. 3rd June 1991Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  4. 4th June 1991Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  5. 5th June 1991What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  6. 6th June 1991Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  7. 7th June 1991What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  8. 8th June 1991Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  9. 9th June 1991Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  10. 10th June 1991In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  11. 11th June 1991What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  12. 12th June 1991How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  13. 13th June 1991Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  14. 14th June 1991What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  15. 15th June 1991On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  16. 16th June 1991Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  17. 17th June 1991Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  18. 18th June 1991What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  19. 19th June 1991In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  20. 20th June 1991In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  21. 21st June 1991In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  22. 22nd June 1991Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  23. 23rd June 1991In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  24. 24th June 1991Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  25. 25th June 1991In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  26. 26th June 1991What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  27. 27th June 1991Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  28. 28th June 1991In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  29. 29th June 1991Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  30. 30th June 1991When did Germany formally reunify?