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February 1996 - GCSE History 5-a-day

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February 1996

29 sheets · 145 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st February 1996Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  2. 2nd February 1996Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  3. 3rd February 1996How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  4. 4th February 1996When did Germany formally reunify?
  5. 5th February 1996What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  6. 6th February 1996What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  7. 7th February 1996Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  8. 8th February 1996Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  9. 9th February 1996Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  10. 10th February 1996Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  11. 11th February 1996Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  12. 12th February 1996Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  13. 13th February 1996Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  14. 14th February 1996What was a Gauleiter?
  15. 15th February 1996What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  16. 16th February 1996How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  17. 17th February 1996Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  18. 18th February 1996What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  19. 19th February 1996On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  20. 20th February 1996What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  21. 21st February 1996Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  22. 22nd February 1996What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  23. 23rd February 1996In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  24. 24th February 1996What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  25. 25th February 1996In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  26. 26th February 1996What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  27. 27th February 1996In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  28. 28th February 1996Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  29. 29th February 1996In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?