Daily Practice · GCSE History
September 1959 5-a-day
Every sheet in September 1959
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1959Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 2nd September 1959What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 3rd September 1959Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 4th September 1959What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 5th September 1959In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 6th September 1959Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 7th September 1959In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 8th September 1959What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 9th September 1959In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 10th September 1959Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 11th September 1959Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 12th September 1959Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 13th September 1959Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 14th September 1959In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 15th September 1959Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 16th September 1959Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 17th September 1959What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 18th September 1959Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 19th September 1959Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 20th September 1959Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 21st September 1959What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 22nd September 1959Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 23rd September 1959In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 24th September 1959What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 25th September 1959In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 26th September 1959What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 27th September 1959How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 28th September 1959Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 29th September 1959What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 30th September 1959Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?