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January 1974

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  1. 1st January 1974What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  2. 2nd January 1974Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  3. 3rd January 1974Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  4. 4th January 1974Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  5. 5th January 1974What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  6. 6th January 1974Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  7. 7th January 1974What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  8. 8th January 1974What is Passchendaele also known as?
  9. 9th January 1974In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  10. 10th January 1974In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  11. 11th January 1974By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  12. 12th January 1974Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  13. 13th January 1974What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  14. 14th January 1974Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  15. 15th January 1974Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  16. 16th January 1974What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  17. 17th January 1974Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  18. 18th January 1974What was the Privy Council?
  19. 19th January 1974What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  20. 20th January 1974Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  21. 21st January 1974Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  22. 22nd January 1974What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  23. 23rd January 1974What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  24. 24th January 1974In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  25. 25th January 1974Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  26. 26th January 1974Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  27. 27th January 1974What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  28. 28th January 1974What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  29. 29th January 1974What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  30. 30th January 1974Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  31. 31st January 1974What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?