Daily Practice · GCSE History
January 1971 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1971
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1971Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 2nd January 1971In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 3rd January 1971Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 4th January 1971What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 5th January 1971In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 6th January 1971What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 7th January 1971In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 8th January 1971What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 9th January 1971In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 10th January 1971Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 11th January 1971In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 12th January 1971What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 13th January 1971Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 14th January 1971In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 15th January 1971Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 16th January 1971On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 17th January 1971Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 18th January 1971Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 19th January 1971Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 20th January 1971Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 21st January 1971In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 22nd January 1971Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 23rd January 1971Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 24th January 1971What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 25th January 1971In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 26th January 1971In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 27th January 1971What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 28th January 1971Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 29th January 1971What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 30th January 1971Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 31st January 1971When did Germany formally reunify?