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August 1981

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  1. 1st August 1981What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  2. 2nd August 1981How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  3. 3rd August 1981How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  4. 4th August 1981Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  5. 5th August 1981What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  6. 6th August 1981What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  7. 7th August 1981Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  8. 8th August 1981Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  9. 9th August 1981What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  10. 10th August 1981In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  11. 11th August 1981What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  12. 12th August 1981In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  13. 13th August 1981What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  14. 14th August 1981In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  15. 15th August 1981Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  16. 16th August 1981What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  17. 17th August 1981Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  18. 18th August 1981Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  19. 19th August 1981In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  20. 20th August 1981Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  21. 21st August 1981Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  22. 22nd August 1981In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  23. 23rd August 1981Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  24. 24th August 1981Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  25. 25th August 1981Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  26. 26th August 1981What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  27. 27th August 1981Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  28. 28th August 1981What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  29. 29th August 1981What is Passchendaele also known as?
  30. 30th August 1981In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  31. 31st August 1981In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?