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November 1962

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  1. 1st November 1962What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  2. 2nd November 1962Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  3. 3rd November 1962Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  4. 4th November 1962Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  5. 5th November 1962Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  6. 6th November 1962What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  7. 7th November 1962Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  8. 8th November 1962Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  9. 9th November 1962Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  10. 10th November 1962Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  11. 11th November 1962How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  12. 12th November 1962Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  13. 13th November 1962What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  14. 14th November 1962Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  15. 15th November 1962What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  16. 16th November 1962Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  17. 17th November 1962What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  18. 18th November 1962In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  19. 19th November 1962What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  20. 20th November 1962In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  21. 21st November 1962In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  22. 22nd November 1962In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  23. 23rd November 1962Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  24. 24th November 1962What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  25. 25th November 1962How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  26. 26th November 1962Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  27. 27th November 1962In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  28. 28th November 1962Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  29. 29th November 1962What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  30. 30th November 1962Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.