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January 1976 5-a-day

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January 1976

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  1. 1st January 1976What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  2. 2nd January 1976Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  3. 3rd January 1976What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  4. 4th January 1976Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  5. 5th January 1976On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  6. 6th January 1976What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  7. 7th January 1976Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  8. 8th January 1976What was the Privy Council?
  9. 9th January 1976What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  10. 10th January 1976What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  11. 11th January 1976Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  12. 12th January 1976What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  13. 13th January 1976What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  14. 14th January 1976In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  15. 15th January 1976In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  16. 16th January 1976By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  17. 17th January 1976What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  18. 18th January 1976What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  19. 19th January 1976What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  20. 20th January 1976Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  21. 21st January 1976What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  22. 22nd January 1976Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  23. 23rd January 1976Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  24. 24th January 1976What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  25. 25th January 1976Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  26. 26th January 1976Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  27. 27th January 1976What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  28. 28th January 1976Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  29. 29th January 1976Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  30. 30th January 1976Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  31. 31st January 1976Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?