Daily Practice · GCSE History
March 1960 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 1960
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1960Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 2nd March 1960What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 3rd March 1960In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 4th March 1960Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 5th March 1960In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 6th March 1960Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 7th March 1960In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 8th March 1960Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 9th March 1960What was a Gauleiter?
- 10th March 1960What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 11th March 1960Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 12th March 1960In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 13th March 1960Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 14th March 1960On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 15th March 1960What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 16th March 1960Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 17th March 1960Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 18th March 1960Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 19th March 1960What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 20th March 1960Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 21st March 1960What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 22nd March 1960What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 23rd March 1960In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 24th March 1960In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 25th March 1960By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 26th March 1960Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 27th March 1960What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 28th March 1960Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 29th March 1960Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 30th March 1960What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 31st March 1960Who were Elizabeth's parents?