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October 1958

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  1. 1st October 1958What was a Gauleiter?
  2. 2nd October 1958What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  3. 3rd October 1958Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  4. 4th October 1958What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  5. 5th October 1958Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  6. 6th October 1958On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  7. 7th October 1958What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  8. 8th October 1958Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  9. 9th October 1958What was the Privy Council?
  10. 10th October 1958What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  11. 11th October 1958What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  12. 12th October 1958Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  13. 13th October 1958What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  14. 14th October 1958What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  15. 15th October 1958In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  16. 16th October 1958In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  17. 17th October 1958By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  18. 18th October 1958What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  19. 19th October 1958What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  20. 20th October 1958What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  21. 21st October 1958Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  22. 22nd October 1958What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  23. 23rd October 1958Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  24. 24th October 1958Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  25. 25th October 1958What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  26. 26th October 1958Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  27. 27th October 1958Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  28. 28th October 1958What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  29. 29th October 1958Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  30. 30th October 1958Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  31. 31st October 1958Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?