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June 1971

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  1. 1st June 1971What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  2. 2nd June 1971In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  3. 3rd June 1971Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  4. 4th June 1971When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  5. 5th June 1971What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  6. 6th June 1971What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  7. 7th June 1971What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  8. 8th June 1971What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  9. 9th June 1971Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  10. 10th June 1971In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  11. 11th June 1971By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  12. 12th June 1971Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  13. 13th June 1971Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  14. 14th June 1971How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  15. 15th June 1971Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  16. 16th June 1971What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  17. 17th June 1971What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  18. 18th June 1971Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  19. 19th June 1971Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  20. 20th June 1971Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  21. 21st June 1971Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  22. 22nd June 1971What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  23. 23rd June 1971Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  24. 24th June 1971Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  25. 25th June 1971Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  26. 26th June 1971Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  27. 27th June 1971How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  28. 28th June 1971Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  29. 29th June 1971What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  30. 30th June 1971Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?