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July 1988

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  1. 1st July 1988Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  2. 2nd July 1988Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  3. 3rd July 1988What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  4. 4th July 1988In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  5. 5th July 1988What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  6. 6th July 1988In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  7. 7th July 1988What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  8. 8th July 1988In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  9. 9th July 1988Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  10. 10th July 1988What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  11. 11th July 1988Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  12. 12th July 1988Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  13. 13th July 1988In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  14. 14th July 1988Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  15. 15th July 1988Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  16. 16th July 1988In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  17. 17th July 1988Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  18. 18th July 1988Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  19. 19th July 1988Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  20. 20th July 1988What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  21. 21st July 1988Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  22. 22nd July 1988What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  23. 23rd July 1988What is Passchendaele also known as?
  24. 24th July 1988In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  25. 25th July 1988In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  26. 26th July 1988What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  27. 27th July 1988Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  28. 28th July 1988What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  29. 29th July 1988Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  30. 30th July 1988On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  31. 31st July 1988Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.