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August 1986

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  1. 1st August 1986Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  2. 2nd August 1986Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  3. 3rd August 1986What is Passchendaele also known as?
  4. 4th August 1986In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  5. 5th August 1986In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  6. 6th August 1986What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  7. 7th August 1986Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  8. 8th August 1986What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  9. 9th August 1986Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  10. 10th August 1986When did Germany formally reunify?
  11. 11th August 1986What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  12. 12th August 1986Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  13. 13th August 1986What was the Privy Council?
  14. 14th August 1986What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  15. 15th August 1986Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  16. 16th August 1986Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  17. 17th August 1986Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  18. 18th August 1986What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  19. 19th August 1986In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  20. 20th August 1986What was a Gauleiter?
  21. 21st August 1986What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  22. 22nd August 1986What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  23. 23rd August 1986What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  24. 24th August 1986What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  25. 25th August 1986On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  26. 26th August 1986What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  27. 27th August 1986Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  28. 28th August 1986Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  29. 29th August 1986What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  30. 30th August 1986What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  31. 31st August 1986Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.