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March 1956

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  1. 1st March 1956What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  2. 2nd March 1956Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  3. 3rd March 1956Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  4. 4th March 1956How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  5. 5th March 1956On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  6. 6th March 1956What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  7. 7th March 1956What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  8. 8th March 1956Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  9. 9th March 1956Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  10. 10th March 1956What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  11. 11th March 1956Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  12. 12th March 1956What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  13. 13th March 1956Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  14. 14th March 1956Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  15. 15th March 1956In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  16. 16th March 1956By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  17. 17th March 1956How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  18. 18th March 1956Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  19. 19th March 1956What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  20. 20th March 1956Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  21. 21st March 1956What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  22. 22nd March 1956Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  23. 23rd March 1956What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  24. 24th March 1956In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  25. 25th March 1956Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  26. 26th March 1956In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  27. 27th March 1956What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  28. 28th March 1956In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  29. 29th March 1956Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  30. 30th March 1956Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  31. 31st March 1956Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?