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April 1971

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  1. 1st April 1971What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  2. 2nd April 1971Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  3. 3rd April 1971Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  4. 4th April 1971What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  5. 5th April 1971In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  6. 6th April 1971What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  7. 7th April 1971In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  8. 8th April 1971What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  9. 9th April 1971In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  10. 10th April 1971Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  11. 11th April 1971What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  12. 12th April 1971Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  13. 13th April 1971Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  14. 14th April 1971In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  15. 15th April 1971Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  16. 16th April 1971Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  17. 17th April 1971In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  18. 18th April 1971Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  19. 19th April 1971Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  20. 20th April 1971Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  21. 21st April 1971What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  22. 22nd April 1971Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  23. 23rd April 1971What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  24. 24th April 1971What is Passchendaele also known as?
  25. 25th April 1971In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  26. 26th April 1971In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  27. 27th April 1971What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  28. 28th April 1971Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  29. 29th April 1971What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  30. 30th April 1971Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?