Daily Practice · GCSE History
April 1968 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1968
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1968On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 2nd April 1968What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 3rd April 1968What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 4th April 1968Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 5th April 1968Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 6th April 1968What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 7th April 1968Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 8th April 1968What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 9th April 1968Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 10th April 1968Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 11th April 1968In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 12th April 1968By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 13th April 1968How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 14th April 1968Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 15th April 1968What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 16th April 1968Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 17th April 1968What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 18th April 1968Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 19th April 1968What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 20th April 1968In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 21st April 1968Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 22nd April 1968In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 23rd April 1968What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 24th April 1968In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 25th April 1968Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 26th April 1968Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 27th April 1968Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 28th April 1968Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 29th April 1968In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 30th April 1968Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?