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August 1960

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  1. 1st August 1960What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  2. 2nd August 1960What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  3. 3rd August 1960In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  4. 4th August 1960What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  5. 5th August 1960Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  6. 6th August 1960What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  7. 7th August 1960How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  8. 8th August 1960Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  9. 9th August 1960Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  10. 10th August 1960How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  11. 11th August 1960What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  12. 12th August 1960Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  13. 13th August 1960What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  14. 14th August 1960Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  15. 15th August 1960Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  16. 16th August 1960What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  17. 17th August 1960Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  18. 18th August 1960What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  19. 19th August 1960Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  20. 20th August 1960Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  21. 21st August 1960What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  22. 22nd August 1960Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  23. 23rd August 1960How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  24. 24th August 1960Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  25. 25th August 1960What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  26. 26th August 1960Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  27. 27th August 1960In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  28. 28th August 1960Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  29. 29th August 1960What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  30. 30th August 1960In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  31. 31st August 1960What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?