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October 1996 - GCSE History 5-a-day

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October 1996

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  1. 1st October 1996Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  2. 2nd October 1996What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  3. 3rd October 1996Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  4. 4th October 1996Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  5. 5th October 1996What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  6. 6th October 1996Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  7. 7th October 1996Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  8. 8th October 1996What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  9. 9th October 1996Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  10. 10th October 1996Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  11. 11th October 1996Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  12. 12th October 1996Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  13. 13th October 1996What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  14. 14th October 1996What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  15. 15th October 1996What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  16. 16th October 1996Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  17. 17th October 1996What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  18. 18th October 1996In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  19. 19th October 1996Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  20. 20th October 1996When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  21. 21st October 1996What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  22. 22nd October 1996What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  23. 23rd October 1996In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  24. 24th October 1996What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  25. 25th October 1996Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  26. 26th October 1996What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  27. 27th October 1996How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  28. 28th October 1996Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  29. 29th October 1996Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  30. 30th October 1996How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  31. 31st October 1996What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?