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August 1968

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  1. 1st August 1968Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  2. 2nd August 1968Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  3. 3rd August 1968Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  4. 4th August 1968Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  5. 5th August 1968Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  6. 6th August 1968What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  7. 7th August 1968What is Passchendaele also known as?
  8. 8th August 1968In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  9. 9th August 1968Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  10. 10th August 1968Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  11. 11th August 1968Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  12. 12th August 1968What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  13. 13th August 1968Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  14. 14th August 1968Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  15. 15th August 1968What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  16. 16th August 1968Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  17. 17th August 1968What was the Privy Council?
  18. 18th August 1968What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  19. 19th August 1968What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  20. 20th August 1968Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  21. 21st August 1968In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  22. 22nd August 1968What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  23. 23rd August 1968In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  24. 24th August 1968What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  25. 25th August 1968How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  26. 26th August 1968What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  27. 27th August 1968What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  28. 28th August 1968What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  29. 29th August 1968What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  30. 30th August 1968Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  31. 31st August 1968Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?