Daily Practice · GCSE History
March 1977 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 1977
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1977What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 2nd March 1977Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 3rd March 1977What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 4th March 1977In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 5th March 1977What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 6th March 1977In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 7th March 1977What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 8th March 1977In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 9th March 1977Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 10th March 1977In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 11th March 1977By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 12th March 1977Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 13th March 1977In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 14th March 1977Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 15th March 1977Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 16th March 1977What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 17th March 1977Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 18th March 1977Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 19th March 1977Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 20th March 1977Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 21st March 1977Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 22nd March 1977What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 23rd March 1977What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 24th March 1977In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 25th March 1977Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 26th March 1977Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 27th March 1977Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 28th March 1977What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 29th March 1977Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 30th March 1977Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 31st March 1977What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?