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August 1996 - GCSE History 5-a-day

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August 1996

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st August 1996How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  2. 2nd August 1996Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  3. 3rd August 1996In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  4. 4th August 1996What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  5. 5th August 1996Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  6. 6th August 1996Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  7. 7th August 1996What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  8. 8th August 1996Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  9. 9th August 1996What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  10. 10th August 1996Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  11. 11th August 1996Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  12. 12th August 1996In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  13. 13th August 1996What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  14. 14th August 1996How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  15. 15th August 1996Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  16. 16th August 1996What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  17. 17th August 1996On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  18. 18th August 1996Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  19. 19th August 1996Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  20. 20th August 1996What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  21. 21st August 1996In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  22. 22nd August 1996In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  23. 23rd August 1996In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  24. 24th August 1996Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  25. 25th August 1996In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  26. 26th August 1996Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  27. 27th August 1996In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  28. 28th August 1996What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  29. 29th August 1996Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  30. 30th August 1996In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  31. 31st August 1996Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?