Daily Practice · GCSE History
September 1956 5-a-day
Every sheet in September 1956
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1956On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 2nd September 1956Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 3rd September 1956What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 4th September 1956Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 5th September 1956Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 6th September 1956In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 7th September 1956Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 8th September 1956Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 9th September 1956Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 10th September 1956Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 11th September 1956In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 12th September 1956What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 13th September 1956How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 14th September 1956Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 15th September 1956What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 16th September 1956When did Germany formally reunify?
- 17th September 1956What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 18th September 1956Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 19th September 1956What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 20th September 1956In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 21st September 1956Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 22nd September 1956In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 23rd September 1956Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 24th September 1956In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 25th September 1956Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 26th September 1956What was a Gauleiter?
- 27th September 1956What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 28th September 1956Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 29th September 1956In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 30th September 1956Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?