Daily Practice · GCSE History
May 1965 5-a-day
Every sheet in May 1965
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1965What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 2nd May 1965When did Germany formally reunify?
- 3rd May 1965What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 4th May 1965Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 5th May 1965What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 6th May 1965In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 7th May 1965Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 8th May 1965In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 9th May 1965Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 10th May 1965In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 11th May 1965Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 12th May 1965What was a Gauleiter?
- 13th May 1965What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 14th May 1965Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 15th May 1965In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 16th May 1965Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 17th May 1965On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 18th May 1965What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 19th May 1965Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 20th May 1965Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 21st May 1965Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 22nd May 1965What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 23rd May 1965Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 24th May 1965What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 25th May 1965What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 26th May 1965In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 27th May 1965In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 28th May 1965By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 29th May 1965Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 30th May 1965What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 31st May 1965Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?