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March 1979

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  1. 1st March 1979What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  2. 2nd March 1979Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  3. 3rd March 1979In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  4. 4th March 1979Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  5. 5th March 1979On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  6. 6th March 1979What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  7. 7th March 1979Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  8. 8th March 1979Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  9. 9th March 1979Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  10. 10th March 1979What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  11. 11th March 1979Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  12. 12th March 1979What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  13. 13th March 1979What is Passchendaele also known as?
  14. 14th March 1979In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  15. 15th March 1979In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  16. 16th March 1979By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  17. 17th March 1979Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  18. 18th March 1979What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  19. 19th March 1979Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  20. 20th March 1979Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  21. 21st March 1979What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  22. 22nd March 1979Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  23. 23rd March 1979What was the Privy Council?
  24. 24th March 1979What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  25. 25th March 1979Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  26. 26th March 1979Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  27. 27th March 1979What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  28. 28th March 1979What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  29. 29th March 1979In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  30. 30th March 1979Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  31. 31st March 1979Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?