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March 1973

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  1. 1st March 1973In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  2. 2nd March 1973By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  3. 3rd March 1973Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  4. 4th March 1973Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  5. 5th March 1973How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  6. 6th March 1973Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  7. 7th March 1973What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  8. 8th March 1973What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  9. 9th March 1973Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  10. 10th March 1973Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  11. 11th March 1973Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  12. 12th March 1973Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  13. 13th March 1973What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  14. 14th March 1973Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  15. 15th March 1973Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  16. 16th March 1973Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  17. 17th March 1973Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  18. 18th March 1973How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  19. 19th March 1973Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  20. 20th March 1973What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  21. 21st March 1973Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  22. 22nd March 1973What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  23. 23rd March 1973Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  24. 24th March 1973What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  25. 25th March 1973In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  26. 26th March 1973What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  27. 27th March 1973In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  28. 28th March 1973In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  29. 29th March 1973In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  30. 30th March 1973Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  31. 31st March 1973What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?