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May 1989

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  1. 1st May 1989What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  2. 2nd May 1989Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  3. 3rd May 1989In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  4. 4th May 1989What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  5. 5th May 1989In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  6. 6th May 1989What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  7. 7th May 1989How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  8. 8th May 1989What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  9. 9th May 1989What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  10. 10th May 1989What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  11. 11th May 1989What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  12. 12th May 1989Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  13. 13th May 1989Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  14. 14th May 1989Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  15. 15th May 1989What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  16. 16th May 1989What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  17. 17th May 1989Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  18. 18th May 1989What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  19. 19th May 1989Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  20. 20th May 1989Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  21. 21st May 1989What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  22. 22nd May 1989Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  23. 23rd May 1989What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  24. 24th May 1989What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  25. 25th May 1989What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  26. 26th May 1989Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  27. 27th May 1989In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  28. 28th May 1989In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  29. 29th May 1989Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  30. 30th May 1989When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  31. 31st May 1989What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?