Daily Practice · GCSE History
August 1963 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1963
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1963In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 2nd August 1963Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 3rd August 1963Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 4th August 1963Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 5th August 1963Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 6th August 1963In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 7th August 1963What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 8th August 1963How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 9th August 1963Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 10th August 1963What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 11th August 1963When did Germany formally reunify?
- 12th August 1963What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 13th August 1963Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 14th August 1963What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 15th August 1963In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 16th August 1963Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 17th August 1963In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 18th August 1963Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 19th August 1963In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 20th August 1963Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 21st August 1963What was a Gauleiter?
- 22nd August 1963What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 23rd August 1963Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 24th August 1963In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 25th August 1963Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 26th August 1963On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 27th August 1963What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 28th August 1963Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 29th August 1963Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 30th August 1963Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 31st August 1963What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?