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March 1980

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  1. 1st March 1980Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  2. 2nd March 1980Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  3. 3rd March 1980Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  4. 4th March 1980What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  5. 5th March 1980Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  6. 6th March 1980What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  7. 7th March 1980What is Passchendaele also known as?
  8. 8th March 1980In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  9. 9th March 1980What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  10. 10th March 1980Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  11. 11th March 1980Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  12. 12th March 1980What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  13. 13th March 1980Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  14. 14th March 1980Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  15. 15th March 1980In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  16. 16th March 1980Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  17. 17th March 1980What was the Privy Council?
  18. 18th March 1980What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  19. 19th March 1980What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  20. 20th March 1980Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  21. 21st March 1980What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  22. 22nd March 1980What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  23. 23rd March 1980In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  24. 24th March 1980In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  25. 25th March 1980What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  26. 26th March 1980What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  27. 27th March 1980What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  28. 28th March 1980What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  29. 29th March 1980On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  30. 30th March 1980Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  31. 31st March 1980Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?