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January 1957

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  1. 1st January 1957Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  2. 2nd January 1957Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  3. 3rd January 1957Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  4. 4th January 1957Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  5. 5th January 1957Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  6. 6th January 1957Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  7. 7th January 1957What is Passchendaele also known as?
  8. 8th January 1957In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  9. 9th January 1957What was a Gauleiter?
  10. 10th January 1957What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  11. 11th January 1957Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  12. 12th January 1957What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  13. 13th January 1957Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  14. 14th January 1957On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  15. 15th January 1957What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  16. 16th January 1957Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  17. 17th January 1957What was the Privy Council?
  18. 18th January 1957What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  19. 19th January 1957What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  20. 20th January 1957Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  21. 21st January 1957What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  22. 22nd January 1957What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  23. 23rd January 1957In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  24. 24th January 1957In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  25. 25th January 1957By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  26. 26th January 1957What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  27. 27th January 1957What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  28. 28th January 1957What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  29. 29th January 1957Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  30. 30th January 1957What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  31. 31st January 1957Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?