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May 1996 - GCSE History 5-a-day

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May 1996

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st May 1996Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  2. 2nd May 1996Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  3. 3rd May 1996How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  4. 4th May 1996On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  5. 5th May 1996Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  6. 6th May 1996What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  7. 7th May 1996Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  8. 8th May 1996Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  9. 9th May 1996In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  10. 10th May 1996Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  11. 11th May 1996Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  12. 12th May 1996Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  13. 13th May 1996Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  14. 14th May 1996In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  15. 15th May 1996What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  16. 16th May 1996How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  17. 17th May 1996Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  18. 18th May 1996What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  19. 19th May 1996When did Germany formally reunify?
  20. 20th May 1996What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  21. 21st May 1996Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  22. 22nd May 1996What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  23. 23rd May 1996In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  24. 24th May 1996Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  25. 25th May 1996In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  26. 26th May 1996Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  27. 27th May 1996In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  28. 28th May 1996Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  29. 29th May 1996What was a Gauleiter?
  30. 30th May 1996What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  31. 31st May 1996Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.