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May 1953

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  1. 1st May 1953By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  2. 2nd May 1953Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  3. 3rd May 1953What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  4. 4th May 1953Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  5. 5th May 1953Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  6. 6th May 1953What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  7. 7th May 1953Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  8. 8th May 1953What was the Privy Council?
  9. 9th May 1953What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  10. 10th May 1953Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  11. 11th May 1953Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  12. 12th May 1953What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  13. 13th May 1953What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  14. 14th May 1953In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  15. 15th May 1953Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  16. 16th May 1953Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  17. 17th May 1953What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  18. 18th May 1953What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  19. 19th May 1953What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  20. 20th May 1953Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  21. 21st May 1953What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  22. 22nd May 1953Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  23. 23rd May 1953Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  24. 24th May 1953What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  25. 25th May 1953What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  26. 26th May 1953Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  27. 27th May 1953In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  28. 28th May 1953Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  29. 29th May 1953Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  30. 30th May 1953What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  31. 31st May 1953How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?