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May 1987

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  1. 1st May 1987In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  2. 2nd May 1987What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  3. 3rd May 1987How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  4. 4th May 1987Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  5. 5th May 1987What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  6. 6th May 1987Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  7. 7th May 1987What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  8. 8th May 1987Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  9. 9th May 1987Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  10. 10th May 1987What was the Privy Council?
  11. 11th May 1987What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  12. 12th May 1987What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  13. 13th May 1987Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  14. 14th May 1987What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  15. 15th May 1987What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  16. 16th May 1987In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  17. 17th May 1987What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  18. 18th May 1987Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  19. 19th May 1987What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  20. 20th May 1987What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  21. 21st May 1987What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  22. 22nd May 1987Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  23. 23rd May 1987In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  24. 24th May 1987Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  25. 25th May 1987Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  26. 26th May 1987What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  27. 27th May 1987What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  28. 28th May 1987Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  29. 29th May 1987What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  30. 30th May 1987Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  31. 31st May 1987Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?