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January 1979 5-a-day

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January 1979

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  1. 1st January 1979What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  2. 2nd January 1979What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  3. 3rd January 1979What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  4. 4th January 1979What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  5. 5th January 1979Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  6. 6th January 1979Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  7. 7th January 1979Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  8. 8th January 1979What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  9. 9th January 1979What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  10. 10th January 1979Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  11. 11th January 1979What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  12. 12th January 1979Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  13. 13th January 1979Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  14. 14th January 1979What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  15. 15th January 1979Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  16. 16th January 1979What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  17. 17th January 1979What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  18. 18th January 1979What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  19. 19th January 1979Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  20. 20th January 1979In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  21. 21st January 1979In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  22. 22nd January 1979Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  23. 23rd January 1979When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  24. 24th January 1979What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  25. 25th January 1979What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  26. 26th January 1979What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  27. 27th January 1979What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  28. 28th January 1979Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  29. 29th January 1979In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  30. 30th January 1979What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  31. 31st January 1979Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.