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July 1971

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  1. 1st July 1971What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  2. 2nd July 1971Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  3. 3rd July 1971What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  4. 4th July 1971In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  5. 5th July 1971What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  6. 6th July 1971In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  7. 7th July 1971In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  8. 8th July 1971In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  9. 9th July 1971Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  10. 10th July 1971What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  11. 11th July 1971How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  12. 12th July 1971Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  13. 13th July 1971In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  14. 14th July 1971Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  15. 15th July 1971What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  16. 16th July 1971Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  17. 17th July 1971Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  18. 18th July 1971Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  19. 19th July 1971Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  20. 20th July 1971What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  21. 21st July 1971Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  22. 22nd July 1971What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  23. 23rd July 1971What is Passchendaele also known as?
  24. 24th July 1971In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  25. 25th July 1971What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  26. 26th July 1971Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  27. 27th July 1971Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  28. 28th July 1971What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  29. 29th July 1971Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  30. 30th July 1971Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  31. 31st July 1971In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?