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August 1958

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  1. 1st August 1958Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  2. 2nd August 1958What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  3. 3rd August 1958How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  4. 4th August 1958What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  5. 5th August 1958What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  6. 6th August 1958What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  7. 7th August 1958What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  8. 8th August 1958Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  9. 9th August 1958In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  10. 10th August 1958Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  11. 11th August 1958When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  12. 12th August 1958What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  13. 13th August 1958What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  14. 14th August 1958What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  15. 15th August 1958What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  16. 16th August 1958Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  17. 17th August 1958What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  18. 18th August 1958Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  19. 19th August 1958Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  20. 20th August 1958Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  21. 21st August 1958How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  22. 22nd August 1958Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  23. 23rd August 1958In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  24. 24th August 1958What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  25. 25th August 1958Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  26. 26th August 1958Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  27. 27th August 1958What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  28. 28th August 1958Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  29. 29th August 1958What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  30. 30th August 1958Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  31. 31st August 1958Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.