Daily Practice · GCSE History
June 1959 5-a-day
Every sheet in June 1959
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 1959Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 2nd June 1959What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 3rd June 1959Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 4th June 1959What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 5th June 1959Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 6th June 1959What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 7th June 1959In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 8th June 1959What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 9th June 1959In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 10th June 1959In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 11th June 1959In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 12th June 1959Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 13th June 1959What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 14th June 1959How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 15th June 1959Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 16th June 1959In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 17th June 1959Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 18th June 1959What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 19th June 1959Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 20th June 1959Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 21st June 1959Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 22nd June 1959Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 23rd June 1959What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 24th June 1959Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 25th June 1959What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 26th June 1959What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 27th June 1959In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 28th June 1959What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 29th June 1959Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 30th June 1959Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?