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October 1977

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  1. 1st October 1977What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  2. 2nd October 1977Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  3. 3rd October 1977What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  4. 4th October 1977What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  5. 5th October 1977In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  6. 6th October 1977In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  7. 7th October 1977By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  8. 8th October 1977What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  9. 9th October 1977What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  10. 10th October 1977What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  11. 11th October 1977Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  12. 12th October 1977What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  13. 13th October 1977Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  14. 14th October 1977Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  15. 15th October 1977What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  16. 16th October 1977Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  17. 17th October 1977Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  18. 18th October 1977What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  19. 19th October 1977Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  20. 20th October 1977Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  21. 21st October 1977Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  22. 22nd October 1977Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  23. 23rd October 1977What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  24. 24th October 1977What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  25. 25th October 1977What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  26. 26th October 1977Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  27. 27th October 1977What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  28. 28th October 1977In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  29. 29th October 1977Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  30. 30th October 1977When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  31. 31st October 1977What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?