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March 1960

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  1. 1st March 1960Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  2. 2nd March 1960What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  3. 3rd March 1960In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  4. 4th March 1960Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  5. 5th March 1960In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  6. 6th March 1960Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  7. 7th March 1960In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  8. 8th March 1960Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  9. 9th March 1960What was a Gauleiter?
  10. 10th March 1960What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  11. 11th March 1960Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  12. 12th March 1960In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  13. 13th March 1960Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  14. 14th March 1960On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  15. 15th March 1960What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  16. 16th March 1960Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  17. 17th March 1960Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  18. 18th March 1960Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  19. 19th March 1960What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  20. 20th March 1960Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  21. 21st March 1960What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  22. 22nd March 1960What is Passchendaele also known as?
  23. 23rd March 1960In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  24. 24th March 1960In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  25. 25th March 1960By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  26. 26th March 1960Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  27. 27th March 1960What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  28. 28th March 1960Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  29. 29th March 1960Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  30. 30th March 1960What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  31. 31st March 1960Who were Elizabeth's parents?