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January 1958

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  1. 1st January 1958In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  2. 2nd January 1958What is Passchendaele also known as?
  3. 3rd January 1958In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  4. 4th January 1958What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  5. 5th January 1958How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  6. 6th January 1958Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  7. 7th January 1958What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  8. 8th January 1958Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  9. 9th January 1958What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  10. 10th January 1958Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  11. 11th January 1958Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  12. 12th January 1958What was the Privy Council?
  13. 13th January 1958What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  14. 14th January 1958What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  15. 15th January 1958Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  16. 16th January 1958What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  17. 17th January 1958What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  18. 18th January 1958In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  19. 19th January 1958What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  20. 20th January 1958Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  21. 21st January 1958What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  22. 22nd January 1958What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  23. 23rd January 1958What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  24. 24th January 1958Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  25. 25th January 1958In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  26. 26th January 1958Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  27. 27th January 1958Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  28. 28th January 1958What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  29. 29th January 1958What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  30. 30th January 1958Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  31. 31st January 1958What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?