Daily Practice · GCSE History
October 1953 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1953
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1953What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 2nd October 1953Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 3rd October 1953In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 4th October 1953Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 5th October 1953What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 6th October 1953In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 7th October 1953What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 8th October 1953In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 9th October 1953What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 10th October 1953In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 11th October 1953Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 12th October 1953In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 13th October 1953What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 14th October 1953Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 15th October 1953In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 16th October 1953Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 17th October 1953On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 18th October 1953Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 19th October 1953Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 20th October 1953Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 21st October 1953Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 22nd October 1953In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 23rd October 1953Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 24th October 1953Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 25th October 1953What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 26th October 1953In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 27th October 1953In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 28th October 1953What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 29th October 1953Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 30th October 1953What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 31st October 1953Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?