Daily Practice · GCSE History
August 1960 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1960
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1960What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 2nd August 1960What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 3rd August 1960In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 4th August 1960What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 5th August 1960Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 6th August 1960What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 7th August 1960How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 8th August 1960Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 9th August 1960Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 10th August 1960How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 11th August 1960What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 12th August 1960Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 13th August 1960What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 14th August 1960Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 15th August 1960Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 16th August 1960What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 17th August 1960Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 18th August 1960What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 19th August 1960Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 20th August 1960Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 21st August 1960What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 22nd August 1960Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 23rd August 1960How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 24th August 1960Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 25th August 1960What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 26th August 1960Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 27th August 1960In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 28th August 1960Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 29th August 1960What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 30th August 1960In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 31st August 1960What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?