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October 1987

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  1. 1st October 1987How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  2. 2nd October 1987Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  3. 3rd October 1987What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  4. 4th October 1987When did Germany formally reunify?
  5. 5th October 1987What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  6. 6th October 1987Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  7. 7th October 1987What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  8. 8th October 1987In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  9. 9th October 1987Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  10. 10th October 1987In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  11. 11th October 1987Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  12. 12th October 1987In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  13. 13th October 1987Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  14. 14th October 1987What was a Gauleiter?
  15. 15th October 1987What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  16. 16th October 1987Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  17. 17th October 1987In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  18. 18th October 1987Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  19. 19th October 1987On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  20. 20th October 1987What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  21. 21st October 1987Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  22. 22nd October 1987Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  23. 23rd October 1987Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  24. 24th October 1987What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  25. 25th October 1987Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  26. 26th October 1987What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  27. 27th October 1987What is Passchendaele also known as?
  28. 28th October 1987In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  29. 29th October 1987In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  30. 30th October 1987By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  31. 31st October 1987Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?