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October 1968

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  1. 1st October 1968Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  2. 2nd October 1968Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  3. 3rd October 1968In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  4. 4th October 1968Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  5. 5th October 1968Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  6. 6th October 1968Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  7. 7th October 1968Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  8. 8th October 1968In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  9. 9th October 1968What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  10. 10th October 1968How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  11. 11th October 1968Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  12. 12th October 1968What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  13. 13th October 1968When did Germany formally reunify?
  14. 14th October 1968What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  15. 15th October 1968Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  16. 16th October 1968What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  17. 17th October 1968In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  18. 18th October 1968Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  19. 19th October 1968In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  20. 20th October 1968Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  21. 21st October 1968In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  22. 22nd October 1968Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  23. 23rd October 1968What was a Gauleiter?
  24. 24th October 1968What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  25. 25th October 1968Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  26. 26th October 1968In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  27. 27th October 1968Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  28. 28th October 1968On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  29. 29th October 1968What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  30. 30th October 1968Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  31. 31st October 1968Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?