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May 1994 - GCSE History 5-a-day

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May 1994

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st May 1994Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  2. 2nd May 1994In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  3. 3rd May 1994Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  4. 4th May 1994When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  5. 5th May 1994In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  6. 6th May 1994What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  7. 7th May 1994Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  8. 8th May 1994What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  9. 9th May 1994Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  10. 10th May 1994In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  11. 11th May 1994What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  12. 12th May 1994Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  13. 13th May 1994Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  14. 14th May 1994How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  15. 15th May 1994When did Germany formally reunify?
  16. 16th May 1994What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  17. 17th May 1994What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  18. 18th May 1994Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  19. 19th May 1994Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  20. 20th May 1994Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  21. 21st May 1994Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  22. 22nd May 1994Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  23. 23rd May 1994Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  24. 24th May 1994Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  25. 25th May 1994What was a Gauleiter?
  26. 26th May 1994What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  27. 27th May 1994How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  28. 28th May 1994Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  29. 29th May 1994What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  30. 30th May 1994On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  31. 31st May 1994What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?