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  1. 1st May 1968Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  2. 2nd May 1968What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  3. 3rd May 1968Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  4. 4th May 1968Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  5. 5th May 1968Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  6. 6th May 1968What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  7. 7th May 1968Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  8. 8th May 1968In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  9. 9th May 1968What is Passchendaele also known as?
  10. 10th May 1968In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  11. 11th May 1968What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  12. 12th May 1968How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  13. 13th May 1968Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  14. 14th May 1968What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  15. 15th May 1968Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  16. 16th May 1968What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  17. 17th May 1968Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  18. 18th May 1968Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  19. 19th May 1968What was the Privy Council?
  20. 20th May 1968What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  21. 21st May 1968What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  22. 22nd May 1968Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  23. 23rd May 1968What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  24. 24th May 1968What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  25. 25th May 1968In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  26. 26th May 1968What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  27. 27th May 1968Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  28. 28th May 1968What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  29. 29th May 1968What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  30. 30th May 1968What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  31. 31st May 1968Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?