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October 1962

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  1. 1st October 1962What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  2. 2nd October 1962Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  3. 3rd October 1962Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  4. 4th October 1962What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  5. 5th October 1962Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  6. 6th October 1962Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  7. 7th October 1962Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  8. 8th October 1962Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  9. 9th October 1962Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  10. 10th October 1962What was a Gauleiter?
  11. 11th October 1962What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  12. 12th October 1962What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  13. 13th October 1962What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  14. 14th October 1962What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  15. 15th October 1962On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  16. 16th October 1962What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  17. 17th October 1962In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  18. 18th October 1962Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  19. 19th October 1962When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  20. 20th October 1962What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  21. 21st October 1962What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  22. 22nd October 1962What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  23. 23rd October 1962What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  24. 24th October 1962Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  25. 25th October 1962In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  26. 26th October 1962By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  27. 27th October 1962Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  28. 28th October 1962Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  29. 29th October 1962How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  30. 30th October 1962Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  31. 31st October 1962What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?