Daily Practice · GCSE History
February 1959 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1959
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1959What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 2nd February 1959What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 3rd February 1959Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 4th February 1959What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 5th February 1959In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 6th February 1959Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 7th February 1959When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 8th February 1959Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 9th February 1959What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 10th February 1959What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 11th February 1959What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 12th February 1959Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 13th February 1959Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 14th February 1959Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 15th February 1959Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 16th February 1959Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 17th February 1959How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 18th February 1959Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 19th February 1959What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 20th February 1959What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 21st February 1959Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 22nd February 1959Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 23rd February 1959What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 24th February 1959Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 25th February 1959In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 26th February 1959Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 27th February 1959Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 28th February 1959What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?