Daily Practice · GCSE History
August 1972 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1972
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1972What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 2nd August 1972In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 3rd August 1972In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 4th August 1972By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 5th August 1972What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 6th August 1972What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 7th August 1972What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 8th August 1972Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 9th August 1972What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 10th August 1972Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 11th August 1972Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 12th August 1972What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 13th August 1972Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 14th August 1972Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 15th August 1972What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 16th August 1972Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
- 17th August 1972Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
- 18th August 1972Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 19th August 1972Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 20th August 1972What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 21st August 1972What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 22nd August 1972What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 23rd August 1972Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 24th August 1972What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 25th August 1972In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 26th August 1972Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 27th August 1972When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 28th August 1972What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 29th August 1972What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 30th August 1972In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 31st August 1972What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?