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August 1970

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  1. 1st August 1970Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  2. 2nd August 1970What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  3. 3rd August 1970Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  4. 4th August 1970Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  5. 5th August 1970What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  6. 6th August 1970Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  7. 7th August 1970What was the Privy Council?
  8. 8th August 1970What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  9. 9th August 1970Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  10. 10th August 1970Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  11. 11th August 1970What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  12. 12th August 1970What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  13. 13th August 1970In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  14. 14th August 1970Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  15. 15th August 1970Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  16. 16th August 1970What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  17. 17th August 1970What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  18. 18th August 1970What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  19. 19th August 1970Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  20. 20th August 1970What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  21. 21st August 1970Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  22. 22nd August 1970Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  23. 23rd August 1970What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  24. 24th August 1970What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  25. 25th August 1970Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  26. 26th August 1970In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  27. 27th August 1970Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  28. 28th August 1970Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  29. 29th August 1970What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  30. 30th August 1970How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  31. 31st August 1970What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?