Daily Practice · GCSE History
May 1959 5-a-day
Every sheet in May 1959
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1959What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 2nd May 1959What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 3rd May 1959What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 4th May 1959On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 5th May 1959What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 6th May 1959In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 7th May 1959Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 8th May 1959When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 9th May 1959What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 10th May 1959What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 11th May 1959What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 12th May 1959What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 13th May 1959Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 14th May 1959In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 15th May 1959By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 16th May 1959Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 17th May 1959Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 18th May 1959How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 19th May 1959Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 20th May 1959What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 21st May 1959What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 22nd May 1959Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 23rd May 1959Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 24th May 1959Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 25th May 1959Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 26th May 1959What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 27th May 1959Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 28th May 1959Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 29th May 1959Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 30th May 1959Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 31st May 1959How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?