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September 1963

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  1. 1st September 1963Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  2. 2nd September 1963What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  3. 3rd September 1963What is Passchendaele also known as?
  4. 4th September 1963In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  5. 5th September 1963In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  6. 6th September 1963By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  7. 7th September 1963Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  8. 8th September 1963What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  9. 9th September 1963Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  10. 10th September 1963Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  11. 11th September 1963What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  12. 12th September 1963Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  13. 13th September 1963What was the Privy Council?
  14. 14th September 1963What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  15. 15th September 1963Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  16. 16th September 1963Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  17. 17th September 1963What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  18. 18th September 1963What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  19. 19th September 1963In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  20. 20th September 1963Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  21. 21st September 1963Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  22. 22nd September 1963What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  23. 23rd September 1963What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  24. 24th September 1963What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  25. 25th September 1963Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  26. 26th September 1963What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  27. 27th September 1963Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  28. 28th September 1963Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  29. 29th September 1963What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  30. 30th September 1963What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?