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January 1978

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  1. 1st January 1978Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  2. 2nd January 1978What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  3. 3rd January 1978In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  4. 4th January 1978What was a Gauleiter?
  5. 5th January 1978What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  6. 6th January 1978What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  7. 7th January 1978What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  8. 8th January 1978What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  9. 9th January 1978On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  10. 10th January 1978What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  11. 11th January 1978Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  12. 12th January 1978Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  13. 13th January 1978What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  14. 14th January 1978What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  15. 15th January 1978Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  16. 16th January 1978What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  17. 17th January 1978Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  18. 18th January 1978Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  19. 19th January 1978In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  20. 20th January 1978By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  21. 21st January 1978What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  22. 22nd January 1978What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  23. 23rd January 1978What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  24. 24th January 1978Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  25. 25th January 1978What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  26. 26th January 1978In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  27. 27th January 1978Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  28. 28th January 1978When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  29. 29th January 1978Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  30. 30th January 1978What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  31. 31st January 1978What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?