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January 1997 - GCSE History 5-a-day

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January 1997

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st January 1997Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  2. 2nd January 1997Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  3. 3rd January 1997What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  4. 4th January 1997What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  5. 5th January 1997Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  6. 6th January 1997What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  7. 7th January 1997Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  8. 8th January 1997Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  9. 9th January 1997In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  10. 10th January 1997By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  11. 11th January 1997What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  12. 12th January 1997What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  13. 13th January 1997What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  14. 14th January 1997Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  15. 15th January 1997What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  16. 16th January 1997In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  17. 17th January 1997Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  18. 18th January 1997When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  19. 19th January 1997Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  20. 20th January 1997What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  21. 21st January 1997What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  22. 22nd January 1997What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  23. 23rd January 1997Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  24. 24th January 1997Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  25. 25th January 1997Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  26. 26th January 1997Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  27. 27th January 1997Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  28. 28th January 1997How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  29. 29th January 1997Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  30. 30th January 1997What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  31. 31st January 1997What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?