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August 1987

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  1. 1st August 1987Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  2. 2nd August 1987Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  3. 3rd August 1987What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  4. 4th August 1987Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  5. 5th August 1987Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  6. 6th August 1987What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  7. 7th August 1987Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  8. 8th August 1987What was the Privy Council?
  9. 9th August 1987What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  10. 10th August 1987What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  11. 11th August 1987Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  12. 12th August 1987In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  13. 13th August 1987What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  14. 14th August 1987In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  15. 15th August 1987What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  16. 16th August 1987How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  17. 17th August 1987What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  18. 18th August 1987What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  19. 19th August 1987What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  20. 20th August 1987What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  21. 21st August 1987Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  22. 22nd August 1987Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  23. 23rd August 1987Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  24. 24th August 1987What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  25. 25th August 1987What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  26. 26th August 1987Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  27. 27th August 1987What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  28. 28th August 1987Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  29. 29th August 1987Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  30. 30th August 1987What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  31. 31st August 1987Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.