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  1. 1st August 1953What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  2. 2nd August 1953Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  3. 3rd August 1953On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  4. 4th August 1953What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  5. 5th August 1953Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  6. 6th August 1953What was the Privy Council?
  7. 7th August 1953What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  8. 8th August 1953What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  9. 9th August 1953Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  10. 10th August 1953What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  11. 11th August 1953What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  12. 12th August 1953In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  13. 13th August 1953In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  14. 14th August 1953By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  15. 15th August 1953What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  16. 16th August 1953What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  17. 17th August 1953What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  18. 18th August 1953Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  19. 19th August 1953What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  20. 20th August 1953Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  21. 21st August 1953Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  22. 22nd August 1953What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  23. 23rd August 1953Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  24. 24th August 1953Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  25. 25th August 1953What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  26. 26th August 1953Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  27. 27th August 1953Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  28. 28th August 1953Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  29. 29th August 1953Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  30. 30th August 1953What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  31. 31st August 1953What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?