Daily Practice · GCSE History
May 1960 5-a-day
Every sheet in May 1960
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1960Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 2nd May 1960When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 3rd May 1960What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 4th May 1960What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 5th May 1960What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 6th May 1960What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 7th May 1960Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 8th May 1960What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 9th May 1960Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 10th May 1960Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 11th May 1960Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 12th May 1960How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 13th May 1960Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 14th May 1960In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 15th May 1960What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 16th May 1960Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 17th May 1960Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 18th May 1960What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 19th May 1960Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 20th May 1960What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 21st May 1960Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 22nd May 1960Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 23rd May 1960In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 24th May 1960What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 25th May 1960How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 26th May 1960Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 27th May 1960What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 28th May 1960On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 29th May 1960Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 30th May 1960Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 31st May 1960What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?