Daily Practice · GCSE History

August 1972 5-a-day

← Today's GCSE History sheet

August 1972

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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.

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