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February 1997 - GCSE History 5-a-day

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February 1997

28 sheets · 140 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st February 1997Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  2. 2nd February 1997Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  3. 3rd February 1997What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  4. 4th February 1997Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  5. 5th February 1997In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  6. 6th February 1997Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  7. 7th February 1997Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  8. 8th February 1997What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  9. 9th February 1997How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  10. 10th February 1997How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  11. 11th February 1997Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  12. 12th February 1997What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  13. 13th February 1997What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  14. 14th February 1997Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  15. 15th February 1997Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  16. 16th February 1997What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  17. 17th February 1997In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  18. 18th February 1997What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  19. 19th February 1997In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  20. 20th February 1997What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  21. 21st February 1997In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  22. 22nd February 1997Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  23. 23rd February 1997What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  24. 24th February 1997Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  25. 25th February 1997Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  26. 26th February 1997In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  27. 27th February 1997Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  28. 28th February 1997Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?