Daily Practice · GCSE History
February 1965 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1965
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1965On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 2nd February 1965What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 3rd February 1965Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 4th February 1965What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 5th February 1965In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 6th February 1965What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 7th February 1965In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 8th February 1965What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 9th February 1965In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 10th February 1965Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 11th February 1965In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 12th February 1965By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 13th February 1965Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 14th February 1965In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 15th February 1965Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 16th February 1965Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 17th February 1965What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 18th February 1965Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 19th February 1965Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 20th February 1965Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 21st February 1965Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 22nd February 1965Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 23rd February 1965What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 24th February 1965What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 25th February 1965In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 26th February 1965Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 27th February 1965Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 28th February 1965Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?