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May 1961

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  1. 1st May 1961What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  2. 2nd May 1961Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  3. 3rd May 1961What was a Gauleiter?
  4. 4th May 1961What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  5. 5th May 1961Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  6. 6th May 1961Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  7. 7th May 1961How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  8. 8th May 1961On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  9. 9th May 1961What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  10. 10th May 1961What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  11. 11th May 1961Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  12. 12th May 1961Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  13. 13th May 1961What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  14. 14th May 1961Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  15. 15th May 1961What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  16. 16th May 1961Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  17. 17th May 1961Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  18. 18th May 1961In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  19. 19th May 1961By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  20. 20th May 1961How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  21. 21st May 1961Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  22. 22nd May 1961What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  23. 23rd May 1961Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  24. 24th May 1961What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  25. 25th May 1961Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  26. 26th May 1961What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  27. 27th May 1961In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  28. 28th May 1961Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  29. 29th May 1961In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  30. 30th May 1961What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  31. 31st May 1961In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?