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August 1978

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  1. 1st August 1978Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  2. 2nd August 1978What was a Gauleiter?
  3. 3rd August 1978What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  4. 4th August 1978Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  5. 5th August 1978Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  6. 6th August 1978How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  7. 7th August 1978On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  8. 8th August 1978What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  9. 9th August 1978What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  10. 10th August 1978Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  11. 11th August 1978Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  12. 12th August 1978What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  13. 13th August 1978Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  14. 14th August 1978What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  15. 15th August 1978Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  16. 16th August 1978Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  17. 17th August 1978In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  18. 18th August 1978By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  19. 19th August 1978How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  20. 20th August 1978Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  21. 21st August 1978What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  22. 22nd August 1978Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  23. 23rd August 1978What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  24. 24th August 1978Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  25. 25th August 1978What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  26. 26th August 1978In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  27. 27th August 1978Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  28. 28th August 1978In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  29. 29th August 1978What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  30. 30th August 1978In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  31. 31st August 1978Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?