Daily Practice · GCSE History
August 1962 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1962
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1962Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 2nd August 1962What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 3rd August 1962What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 4th August 1962Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 5th August 1962Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 6th August 1962What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 7th August 1962Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 8th August 1962In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 9th August 1962Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 10th August 1962Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 11th August 1962What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 12th August 1962How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 13th August 1962How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 14th August 1962Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 15th August 1962What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 16th August 1962What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 17th August 1962Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 18th August 1962Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 19th August 1962What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 20th August 1962In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 21st August 1962What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 22nd August 1962In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 23rd August 1962What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 24th August 1962In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 25th August 1962Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 26th August 1962What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 27th August 1962Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 28th August 1962Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 29th August 1962In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 30th August 1962Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 31st August 1962Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?