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May 1962

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  1. 1st May 1962Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  2. 2nd May 1962How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  3. 3rd May 1962What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  4. 4th May 1962Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  5. 5th May 1962What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  6. 6th May 1962Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  7. 7th May 1962Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  8. 8th May 1962What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  9. 9th May 1962Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  10. 10th May 1962What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  11. 11th May 1962Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  12. 12th May 1962Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  13. 13th May 1962What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  14. 14th May 1962Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  15. 15th May 1962How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  16. 16th May 1962Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  17. 17th May 1962What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  18. 18th May 1962Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  19. 19th May 1962In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  20. 20th May 1962Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  21. 21st May 1962What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  22. 22nd May 1962In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  23. 23rd May 1962What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  24. 24th May 1962In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  25. 25th May 1962What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  26. 26th May 1962In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  27. 27th May 1962Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  28. 28th May 1962In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  29. 29th May 1962What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  30. 30th May 1962Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  31. 31st May 1962In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?