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March 1975

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  1. 1st March 1975What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  2. 2nd March 1975Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  3. 3rd March 1975What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  4. 4th March 1975Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  5. 5th March 1975Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  6. 6th March 1975In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  7. 7th March 1975By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  8. 8th March 1975How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  9. 9th March 1975Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  10. 10th March 1975What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  11. 11th March 1975Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  12. 12th March 1975What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  13. 13th March 1975Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  14. 14th March 1975What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  15. 15th March 1975In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  16. 16th March 1975Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  17. 17th March 1975In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  18. 18th March 1975What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  19. 19th March 1975In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  20. 20th March 1975Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  21. 21st March 1975Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  22. 22nd March 1975Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  23. 23rd March 1975Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  24. 24th March 1975In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  25. 25th March 1975Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  26. 26th March 1975Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  27. 27th March 1975What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  28. 28th March 1975Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  29. 29th March 1975Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  30. 30th March 1975Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  31. 31st March 1975What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?