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June 1980

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  1. 1st June 1980Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  2. 2nd June 1980What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  3. 3rd June 1980Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  4. 4th June 1980In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  5. 5th June 1980What is Passchendaele also known as?
  6. 6th June 1980In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  7. 7th June 1980What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  8. 8th June 1980How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  9. 9th June 1980Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  10. 10th June 1980What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  11. 11th June 1980Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  12. 12th June 1980What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  13. 13th June 1980Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  14. 14th June 1980Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  15. 15th June 1980What was the Privy Council?
  16. 16th June 1980What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  17. 17th June 1980What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  18. 18th June 1980Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  19. 19th June 1980What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  20. 20th June 1980What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  21. 21st June 1980In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  22. 22nd June 1980What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  23. 23rd June 1980Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  24. 24th June 1980What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  25. 25th June 1980What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  26. 26th June 1980What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  27. 27th June 1980Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  28. 28th June 1980In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  29. 29th June 1980Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  30. 30th June 1980Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?