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March 1981

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  1. 1st March 1981Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  2. 2nd March 1981What is Passchendaele also known as?
  3. 3rd March 1981In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  4. 4th March 1981What was a Gauleiter?
  5. 5th March 1981What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  6. 6th March 1981Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  7. 7th March 1981What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  8. 8th March 1981Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  9. 9th March 1981On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  10. 10th March 1981What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  11. 11th March 1981Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  12. 12th March 1981What was the Privy Council?
  13. 13th March 1981What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  14. 14th March 1981What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  15. 15th March 1981Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  16. 16th March 1981What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  17. 17th March 1981What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  18. 18th March 1981In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  19. 19th March 1981In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  20. 20th March 1981By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  21. 21st March 1981What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  22. 22nd March 1981What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  23. 23rd March 1981What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  24. 24th March 1981Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  25. 25th March 1981What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  26. 26th March 1981Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  27. 27th March 1981Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  28. 28th March 1981What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  29. 29th March 1981Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  30. 30th March 1981Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  31. 31st March 1981What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?