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January 1981

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  1. 1st January 1981Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  2. 2nd January 1981Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  3. 3rd January 1981What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  4. 4th January 1981How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  5. 5th January 1981What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  6. 6th January 1981What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  7. 7th January 1981What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  8. 8th January 1981What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  9. 9th January 1981Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  10. 10th January 1981In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  11. 11th January 1981Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  12. 12th January 1981When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  13. 13th January 1981What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  14. 14th January 1981What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  15. 15th January 1981What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  16. 16th January 1981What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  17. 17th January 1981Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  18. 18th January 1981What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  19. 19th January 1981Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  20. 20th January 1981Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  21. 21st January 1981Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  22. 22nd January 1981How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  23. 23rd January 1981Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  24. 24th January 1981In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  25. 25th January 1981What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  26. 26th January 1981Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  27. 27th January 1981Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  28. 28th January 1981What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  29. 29th January 1981Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  30. 30th January 1981What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  31. 31st January 1981Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?