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September 1957

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  1. 1st September 1957Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  2. 2nd September 1957Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  3. 3rd September 1957What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  4. 4th September 1957Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  5. 5th September 1957Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  6. 6th September 1957Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  7. 7th September 1957Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  8. 8th September 1957How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  9. 9th September 1957Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  10. 10th September 1957What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  11. 11th September 1957Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  12. 12th September 1957What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  13. 13th September 1957Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  14. 14th September 1957What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  15. 15th September 1957In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  16. 16th September 1957What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  17. 17th September 1957In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  18. 18th September 1957In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  19. 19th September 1957In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  20. 20th September 1957Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  21. 21st September 1957What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  22. 22nd September 1957How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  23. 23rd September 1957Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  24. 24th September 1957In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  25. 25th September 1957Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  26. 26th September 1957What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  27. 27th September 1957Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  28. 28th September 1957Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  29. 29th September 1957Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  30. 30th September 1957Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?