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January 1995 - GCSE History 5-a-day

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January 1995

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  1. 1st January 1995Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  2. 2nd January 1995What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  3. 3rd January 1995What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  4. 4th January 1995In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  5. 5th January 1995In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  6. 6th January 1995By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  7. 7th January 1995What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  8. 8th January 1995What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  9. 9th January 1995What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  10. 10th January 1995Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  11. 11th January 1995What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  12. 12th January 1995Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  13. 13th January 1995Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  14. 14th January 1995What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  15. 15th January 1995Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  16. 16th January 1995Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  17. 17th January 1995What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  18. 18th January 1995Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  19. 19th January 1995Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  20. 20th January 1995Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  21. 21st January 1995Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  22. 22nd January 1995What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  23. 23rd January 1995What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  24. 24th January 1995What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  25. 25th January 1995Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  26. 26th January 1995What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  27. 27th January 1995In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  28. 28th January 1995Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  29. 29th January 1995When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  30. 30th January 1995What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  31. 31st January 1995What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?