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February 1992 5-a-day

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February 1992

29 sheets · 145 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st February 1992Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  2. 2nd February 1992Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  3. 3rd February 1992Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  4. 4th February 1992Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  5. 5th February 1992What was a Gauleiter?
  6. 6th February 1992What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  7. 7th February 1992What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  8. 8th February 1992What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  9. 9th February 1992What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  10. 10th February 1992On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  11. 11th February 1992What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  12. 12th February 1992In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  13. 13th February 1992Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  14. 14th February 1992When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  15. 15th February 1992What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  16. 16th February 1992What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  17. 17th February 1992What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  18. 18th February 1992What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  19. 19th February 1992Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  20. 20th February 1992In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  21. 21st February 1992By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  22. 22nd February 1992Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  23. 23rd February 1992Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  24. 24th February 1992How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  25. 25th February 1992Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  26. 26th February 1992What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  27. 27th February 1992What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  28. 28th February 1992Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  29. 29th February 1992Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.