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December 1963

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  1. 1st December 1963Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  2. 2nd December 1963What is Passchendaele also known as?
  3. 3rd December 1963In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  4. 4th December 1963What was a Gauleiter?
  5. 5th December 1963What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  6. 6th December 1963Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  7. 7th December 1963What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  8. 8th December 1963Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  9. 9th December 1963On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  10. 10th December 1963What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  11. 11th December 1963Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  12. 12th December 1963What was the Privy Council?
  13. 13th December 1963What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  14. 14th December 1963What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  15. 15th December 1963Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  16. 16th December 1963What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  17. 17th December 1963What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  18. 18th December 1963In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  19. 19th December 1963In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  20. 20th December 1963By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  21. 21st December 1963What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  22. 22nd December 1963What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  23. 23rd December 1963What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  24. 24th December 1963Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  25. 25th December 1963What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  26. 26th December 1963Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  27. 27th December 1963Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  28. 28th December 1963What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  29. 29th December 1963Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  30. 30th December 1963Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  31. 31st December 1963What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?