Daily Practice · GCSE History
October 1975 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1975
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1975In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 2nd October 1975In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 3rd October 1975By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 4th October 1975Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 5th October 1975What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 6th October 1975Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 7th October 1975Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 8th October 1975What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 9th October 1975Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 10th October 1975What was the Privy Council?
- 11th October 1975What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 12th October 1975Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 13th October 1975Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 14th October 1975What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 15th October 1975What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 16th October 1975In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 17th October 1975Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 18th October 1975Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 19th October 1975What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 20th October 1975What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 21st October 1975What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 22nd October 1975Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 23rd October 1975What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 24th October 1975Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 25th October 1975Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 26th October 1975What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 27th October 1975What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 28th October 1975Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 29th October 1975In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 30th October 1975Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
- 31st October 1975Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?