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March 1961

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  1. 1st March 1961In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  2. 2nd March 1961In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  3. 3rd March 1961Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  4. 4th March 1961What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  5. 5th March 1961How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  6. 6th March 1961Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  7. 7th March 1961In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  8. 8th March 1961Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  9. 9th March 1961What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  10. 10th March 1961Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  11. 11th March 1961Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  12. 12th March 1961Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  13. 13th March 1961Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  14. 14th March 1961What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  15. 15th March 1961Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  16. 16th March 1961What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  17. 17th March 1961What is Passchendaele also known as?
  18. 18th March 1961In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  19. 19th March 1961What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  20. 20th March 1961Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  21. 21st March 1961Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  22. 22nd March 1961What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  23. 23rd March 1961Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  24. 24th March 1961Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  25. 25th March 1961In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  26. 26th March 1961Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  27. 27th March 1961What was the Privy Council?
  28. 28th March 1961What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  29. 29th March 1961What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  30. 30th March 1961Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  31. 31st March 1961What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?