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January 1955

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  1. 1st January 1955In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  2. 2nd January 1955Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  3. 3rd January 1955In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  4. 4th January 1955Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  5. 5th January 1955What was a Gauleiter?
  6. 6th January 1955What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  7. 7th January 1955Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  8. 8th January 1955In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  9. 9th January 1955Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  10. 10th January 1955On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  11. 11th January 1955What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  12. 12th January 1955Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  13. 13th January 1955Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  14. 14th January 1955Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  15. 15th January 1955What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  16. 16th January 1955Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  17. 17th January 1955What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  18. 18th January 1955What is Passchendaele also known as?
  19. 19th January 1955In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  20. 20th January 1955In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  21. 21st January 1955By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  22. 22nd January 1955Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  23. 23rd January 1955What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  24. 24th January 1955Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  25. 25th January 1955Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  26. 26th January 1955What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  27. 27th January 1955Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  28. 28th January 1955What was the Privy Council?
  29. 29th January 1955What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  30. 30th January 1955Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  31. 31st January 1955Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?