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August 1969

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  1. 1st August 1969What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  2. 2nd August 1969What is Passchendaele also known as?
  3. 3rd August 1969In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  4. 4th August 1969In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  5. 5th August 1969What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  6. 6th August 1969Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  7. 7th August 1969What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  8. 8th August 1969Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  9. 9th August 1969On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  10. 10th August 1969Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  11. 11th August 1969Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  12. 12th August 1969What was the Privy Council?
  13. 13th August 1969What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  14. 14th August 1969In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  15. 15th August 1969Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  16. 16th August 1969Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  17. 17th August 1969What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  18. 18th August 1969In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  19. 19th August 1969In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  20. 20th August 1969What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  21. 21st August 1969What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  22. 22nd August 1969What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  23. 23rd August 1969What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  24. 24th August 1969When did Germany formally reunify?
  25. 25th August 1969What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  26. 26th August 1969Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  27. 27th August 1969Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  28. 28th August 1969What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  29. 29th August 1969Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  30. 30th August 1969Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  31. 31st August 1969Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?