Daily Practice · GCSE History
August 1956 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1956
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1956What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 2nd August 1956What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 3rd August 1956Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 4th August 1956Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 5th August 1956Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 6th August 1956What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 7th August 1956What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 8th August 1956Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 9th August 1956What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 10th August 1956Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
- 11th August 1956Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
- 12th August 1956What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 13th August 1956Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 14th August 1956What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 15th August 1956What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 16th August 1956What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 17th August 1956Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 18th August 1956In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 19th August 1956In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 20th August 1956Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 21st August 1956When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 22nd August 1956What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 23rd August 1956What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 24th August 1956What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 25th August 1956What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 26th August 1956Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 27th August 1956In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 28th August 1956What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 29th August 1956Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 30th August 1956Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 31st August 1956How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?