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January 1987

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  1. 1st January 1987Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  2. 2nd January 1987Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  3. 3rd January 1987Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  4. 4th January 1987How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  5. 5th January 1987Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  6. 6th January 1987What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  7. 7th January 1987Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  8. 8th January 1987What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  9. 9th January 1987Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  10. 10th January 1987What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  11. 11th January 1987In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  12. 12th January 1987What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  13. 13th January 1987In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  14. 14th January 1987In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  15. 15th January 1987In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  16. 16th January 1987Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  17. 17th January 1987What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  18. 18th January 1987How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  19. 19th January 1987Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  20. 20th January 1987In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  21. 21st January 1987Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  22. 22nd January 1987What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  23. 23rd January 1987Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  24. 24th January 1987Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  25. 25th January 1987Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  26. 26th January 1987Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  27. 27th January 1987What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  28. 28th January 1987Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  29. 29th January 1987What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  30. 30th January 1987What is Passchendaele also known as?
  31. 31st January 1987In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?