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May 1982

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  1. 1st May 1982Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  2. 2nd May 1982What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  3. 3rd May 1982On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  4. 4th May 1982What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  5. 5th May 1982Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  6. 6th May 1982What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  7. 7th May 1982In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  8. 8th May 1982What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  9. 9th May 1982In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  10. 10th May 1982What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  11. 11th May 1982In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  12. 12th May 1982Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  13. 13th May 1982In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  14. 14th May 1982By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  15. 15th May 1982Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  16. 16th May 1982In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  17. 17th May 1982Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  18. 18th May 1982Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  19. 19th May 1982What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  20. 20th May 1982Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  21. 21st May 1982Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  22. 22nd May 1982Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  23. 23rd May 1982Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  24. 24th May 1982Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  25. 25th May 1982What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  26. 26th May 1982What is Passchendaele also known as?
  27. 27th May 1982In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  28. 28th May 1982Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  29. 29th May 1982Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  30. 30th May 1982Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  31. 31st May 1982What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?