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January 1972

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  1. 1st January 1972What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  2. 2nd January 1972In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  3. 3rd January 1972What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  4. 4th January 1972In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  5. 5th January 1972Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  6. 6th January 1972In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  7. 7th January 1972By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  8. 8th January 1972Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  9. 9th January 1972In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  10. 10th January 1972Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  11. 11th January 1972Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  12. 12th January 1972What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  13. 13th January 1972Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  14. 14th January 1972Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  15. 15th January 1972Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  16. 16th January 1972Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  17. 17th January 1972Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  18. 18th January 1972What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  19. 19th January 1972What is Passchendaele also known as?
  20. 20th January 1972In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  21. 21st January 1972Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  22. 22nd January 1972Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  23. 23rd January 1972Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  24. 24th January 1972What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  25. 25th January 1972Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  26. 26th January 1972Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  27. 27th January 1972What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  28. 28th January 1972Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  29. 29th January 1972What was the Privy Council?
  30. 30th January 1972What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  31. 31st January 1972What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?