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Who introduced the church courts?

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Norman’s

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When was trial by ordeal abolished?

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1215

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After what year did all unnatural deaths have to be reported to the coroner?

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1190

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4
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What was benefit of the clergy?

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People avoiding harsher royal court punishments by reading a passage of the bible

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What happened to the gunpowder plotters and Guy Fawkes in 1605?

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Hung drawn and quartered

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In the 1560-1600 the number of vagabonds increases from what to what due to the bad harvests of the 1590s

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69 to 555

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7
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What made it difficult for Assize judges to travel around England and enforce law

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The civil war

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8
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The bloody code saw how many crimes punishable by death and when

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50 in 1688 to 225 in 1815

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9
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In 1777 what report did John Howard criticise conditions in prisons

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The state of prisons

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10
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When was fingerprinting first introduced?

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1901

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In what conference was Germany divided in 1945

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Potsdam

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12
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When was Germany formally made two separate countries

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1949

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13
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How much money did the Marshall plan put into West Europe in 1953

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$17 billion

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14
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When was NATO formed?

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1949

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15
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When was the Warsaw Pact formed?

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1955

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16
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Who was executed after the Hungarian uprising

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Nagy

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17
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When was the failed invasion of Cuba (bay of pigs)

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1961

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18
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Who was supported by the CIA and were part of the bay of pigs invasion

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La Brigada 2506

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What event caused the hotline between Washington and Moscow to be set up

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Cuban missile crisis

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20
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What was instigated after the Prague spring in 1968

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Brezhnev doctrine

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21
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SALT || was agreed in 1979 but wasn’t ratified because of what?

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The soviet unions invasion of Afghanistan

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22
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What was the defence program announced by Reagan in 1983

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Star Wars

23
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What was gorbachevs new thinking?

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Perestroika(re-structuring allowing private ownership) Glasnost (openness more freedom)

24
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Barons could pay scutage instead of supply knights for the king but what is it?

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Paying a tax

25
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Who did Richard the 1st defeat at the battle of Arsuf

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Saladin

26
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What was agreed in the treaty of Jaffa?

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Saladin would keep control of Jerusalem but Christians could go there on pilgrimage

27
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How was Richards ransom paid for in England?

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Aid tax of 25% of moveables

28
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Who were the three counts who Richard persuaded to switch from Phillips side to Richards?

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Boulogne, Flanders and Toulouse

29
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Who did John reward with Bishop of Winchester?

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Peter des Roche’s

30
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Who did John starve to death when he had them as hostages

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Matilda de Briouze and her son

31
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What is the battle in which John loses control of Normandy in 1214 after retreating and causing his ally Otto to be defeated

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Battle of Bouvines

32
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John did not keep the agreements in the Magna Carta so how did he counter this?

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Got the pope to annul it

33
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Who defeated Prince Louis troops at the battle of Lincoln in 1216

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William Marshall

34
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When was Martin Luther kings house firebombed by the KKK?

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1956

35
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The Montgomery improvement association used what ruling to say that bus segregation was in-constitutional?

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Brown V Topeka

36
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Why were the white citizens councils set up?

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To fight Brown V Topeka and to campaign against the NAACP

37
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What was signed by the southern politicians to oppose federal interference in segregation?

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Southern Manifesto

38
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How were the SNCC set up

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With a grant from the SCLC

39
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Why did Bull Connor give the Birmingham police Mother’s Day off?

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So the police didn’t protect the freedom riders From the KKK

40
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How many attended the march on Washington in 1963

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250,000 people and 80,000 whites

41
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Who did JFK appoint as the NAACP federal judge?

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Thurgood Marshall

42
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Which two athletes made a black power salute in the 1968 Mexico olympics?

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Tommy Smith and John Carlos

43
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How much damage did the Watts Riots do?

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$40 million

44
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What was the program

Called which moved Vietnamese from their ancestral burial grounds into fortified villages?

A

Strategic hamlet project

45
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How many military advisors did JFK send to Vietnam?

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16,000

46
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What percent of south Vietnam had been taken by the Vietcong in 1963?

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35%

47
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How many US soldiers were sent to Vietnam in 1965?

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200,000

48
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How did the Vietcong help villagers?

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Helped collect the harvest

49
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How many Vietnamese were killed for collaborating with the south?

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27,000

50
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How long did it take to clear Saigon of Vietcong after the Tet offensive?

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2 days

51
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What were the aims of the attacks on Cambodia and Laos by Nixon in 1970-71

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Cut of the Ho Chi Minh Trail

52
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What was the heroin addiction rate of US soldiers

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30%

53
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How many construction workers took part in the hard hats demonstration in New York?

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200

54
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When did congress cut funding for the war?

A

1973

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