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October 1973

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  1. 1st October 1973Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  2. 2nd October 1973Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  3. 3rd October 1973What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  4. 4th October 1973Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  5. 5th October 1973Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  6. 6th October 1973Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  7. 7th October 1973Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  8. 8th October 1973Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  9. 9th October 1973What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  10. 10th October 1973What is Passchendaele also known as?
  11. 11th October 1973In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  12. 12th October 1973Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  13. 13th October 1973Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  14. 14th October 1973Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  15. 15th October 1973What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  16. 16th October 1973Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  17. 17th October 1973Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  18. 18th October 1973What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  19. 19th October 1973Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  20. 20th October 1973What was the Privy Council?
  21. 21st October 1973What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  22. 22nd October 1973What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  23. 23rd October 1973Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  24. 24th October 1973In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  25. 25th October 1973What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  26. 26th October 1973In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  27. 27th October 1973What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  28. 28th October 1973How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  29. 29th October 1973What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  30. 30th October 1973What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  31. 31st October 1973What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?