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July 1974

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  1. 1st July 1974Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  2. 2nd July 1974Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  3. 3rd July 1974Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  4. 4th July 1974In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  5. 5th July 1974Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  6. 6th July 1974Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  7. 7th July 1974What is Passchendaele also known as?
  8. 8th July 1974In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  9. 9th July 1974In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  10. 10th July 1974What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  11. 11th July 1974Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  12. 12th July 1974What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  13. 13th July 1974Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  14. 14th July 1974When did Germany formally reunify?
  15. 15th July 1974What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  16. 16th July 1974Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  17. 17th July 1974What was the Privy Council?
  18. 18th July 1974What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  19. 19th July 1974Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  20. 20th July 1974Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  21. 21st July 1974Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  22. 22nd July 1974What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  23. 23rd July 1974In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  24. 24th July 1974What was a Gauleiter?
  25. 25th July 1974What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  26. 26th July 1974What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  27. 27th July 1974What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  28. 28th July 1974What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  29. 29th July 1974On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  30. 30th July 1974What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  31. 31st July 1974Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?