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January 1989 5-a-day

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January 1989

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  1. 1st January 1989Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  2. 2nd January 1989In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  3. 3rd January 1989What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  4. 4th January 1989In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  5. 5th January 1989Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  6. 6th January 1989Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  7. 7th January 1989Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  8. 8th January 1989Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  9. 9th January 1989In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  10. 10th January 1989Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  11. 11th January 1989Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  12. 12th January 1989What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  13. 13th January 1989Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  14. 14th January 1989Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  15. 15th January 1989Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  16. 16th January 1989What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  17. 17th January 1989Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  18. 18th January 1989In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  19. 19th January 1989What is Passchendaele also known as?
  20. 20th January 1989In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  21. 21st January 1989What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  22. 22nd January 1989How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  23. 23rd January 1989Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  24. 24th January 1989What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  25. 25th January 1989Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  26. 26th January 1989What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  27. 27th January 1989Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  28. 28th January 1989Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  29. 29th January 1989What was the Privy Council?
  30. 30th January 1989What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  31. 31st January 1989What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?