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January 1991 5-a-day

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January 1991

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  1. 1st January 1991Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  2. 2nd January 1991What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  3. 3rd January 1991Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  4. 4th January 1991Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  5. 5th January 1991Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  6. 6th January 1991Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  7. 7th January 1991Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  8. 8th January 1991What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  9. 9th January 1991What is Passchendaele also known as?
  10. 10th January 1991In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  11. 11th January 1991Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  12. 12th January 1991Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  13. 13th January 1991Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  14. 14th January 1991What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  15. 15th January 1991Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  16. 16th January 1991Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  17. 17th January 1991What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  18. 18th January 1991Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  19. 19th January 1991What was the Privy Council?
  20. 20th January 1991What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  21. 21st January 1991What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  22. 22nd January 1991Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  23. 23rd January 1991In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  24. 24th January 1991What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  25. 25th January 1991In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  26. 26th January 1991What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  27. 27th January 1991How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  28. 28th January 1991What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  29. 29th January 1991What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  30. 30th January 1991What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  31. 31st January 1991What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?