Daily Practice · GCSE History
May 1979 5-a-day
Every sheet in May 1979
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1979Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 2nd May 1979Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 3rd May 1979How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 4th May 1979Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 5th May 1979In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 6th May 1979What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 7th May 1979Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 8th May 1979Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 9th May 1979What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 10th May 1979Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 11th May 1979What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 12th May 1979Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 13th May 1979Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 14th May 1979In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 15th May 1979What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 16th May 1979How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 17th May 1979Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 18th May 1979What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 19th May 1979On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 20th May 1979Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 21st May 1979Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 22nd May 1979What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 23rd May 1979In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 24th May 1979In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 25th May 1979In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 26th May 1979Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 27th May 1979In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 28th May 1979Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 29th May 1979In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 30th May 1979What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 31st May 1979Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.