Daily Practice · GCSE History
January 1972 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1972
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1972What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 2nd January 1972In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 3rd January 1972What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 4th January 1972In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 5th January 1972Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 6th January 1972In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 7th January 1972By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 8th January 1972Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 9th January 1972In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 10th January 1972Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 11th January 1972Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 12th January 1972What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 13th January 1972Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 14th January 1972Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 15th January 1972Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 16th January 1972Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 17th January 1972Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 18th January 1972What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 19th January 1972What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 20th January 1972In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 21st January 1972Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 22nd January 1972Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 23rd January 1972Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 24th January 1972What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 25th January 1972Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 26th January 1972Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 27th January 1972What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 28th January 1972Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 29th January 1972What was the Privy Council?
- 30th January 1972What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 31st January 1972What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?