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July 1954

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  1. 1st July 1954Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  2. 2nd July 1954What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  3. 3rd July 1954In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  4. 4th July 1954Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  5. 5th July 1954In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  6. 6th July 1954What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  7. 7th July 1954In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  8. 8th July 1954Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  9. 9th July 1954Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  10. 10th July 1954Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  11. 11th July 1954Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  12. 12th July 1954In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  13. 13th July 1954Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  14. 14th July 1954Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  15. 15th July 1954What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  16. 16th July 1954Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  17. 17th July 1954Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  18. 18th July 1954Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  19. 19th July 1954What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  20. 20th July 1954Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  21. 21st July 1954In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  22. 22nd July 1954What is Passchendaele also known as?
  23. 23rd July 1954In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  24. 24th July 1954What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  25. 25th July 1954How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  26. 26th July 1954Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  27. 27th July 1954What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  28. 28th July 1954Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  29. 29th July 1954What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  30. 30th July 1954Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  31. 31st July 1954Who were Elizabeth's parents?