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September 1994 - GCSE History 5-a-day

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September 1994

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st September 1994In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  2. 2nd September 1994Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  3. 3rd September 1994In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  4. 4th September 1994Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  5. 5th September 1994In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  6. 6th September 1994Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  7. 7th September 1994What was a Gauleiter?
  8. 8th September 1994What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  9. 9th September 1994Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  10. 10th September 1994In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  11. 11th September 1994Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  12. 12th September 1994On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  13. 13th September 1994What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  14. 14th September 1994Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  15. 15th September 1994Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  16. 16th September 1994Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  17. 17th September 1994What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  18. 18th September 1994Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  19. 19th September 1994What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  20. 20th September 1994What is Passchendaele also known as?
  21. 21st September 1994In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  22. 22nd September 1994In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  23. 23rd September 1994By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  24. 24th September 1994Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  25. 25th September 1994What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  26. 26th September 1994Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  27. 27th September 1994Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  28. 28th September 1994What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  29. 29th September 1994Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  30. 30th September 1994What was the Privy Council?