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August 1961

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  1. 1st August 1961In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  2. 2nd August 1961What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  3. 3rd August 1961Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  4. 4th August 1961Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  5. 5th August 1961How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  6. 6th August 1961When did Germany formally reunify?
  7. 7th August 1961What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  8. 8th August 1961What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  9. 9th August 1961Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  10. 10th August 1961Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  11. 11th August 1961Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  12. 12th August 1961Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  13. 13th August 1961Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  14. 14th August 1961Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  15. 15th August 1961Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  16. 16th August 1961What was a Gauleiter?
  17. 17th August 1961What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  18. 18th August 1961How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  19. 19th August 1961Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  20. 20th August 1961What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  21. 21st August 1961On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  22. 22nd August 1961What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  23. 23rd August 1961Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  24. 24th August 1961What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  25. 25th August 1961In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  26. 26th August 1961What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  27. 27th August 1961In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  28. 28th August 1961What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  29. 29th August 1961In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  30. 30th August 1961Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  31. 31st August 1961In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?