Daily Practice · GCSE History
February 1979 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1979
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1979Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 2nd February 1979How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 3rd February 1979On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 4th February 1979Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 5th February 1979What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 6th February 1979Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 7th February 1979Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 8th February 1979In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 9th February 1979Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 10th February 1979Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 11th February 1979Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 12th February 1979Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 13th February 1979In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 14th February 1979What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 15th February 1979How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 16th February 1979Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 17th February 1979What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 18th February 1979When did Germany formally reunify?
- 19th February 1979What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 20th February 1979Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 21st February 1979What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 22nd February 1979In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 23rd February 1979Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 24th February 1979In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 25th February 1979Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 26th February 1979In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 27th February 1979Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 28th February 1979What was a Gauleiter?