Daily Practice · GCSE History
February 1980 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1980
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1980Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 2nd February 1980Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 3rd February 1980Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 4th February 1980Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 5th February 1980What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 6th February 1980Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 7th February 1980Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 8th February 1980Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 9th February 1980Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 10th February 1980How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 11th February 1980Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 12th February 1980What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 13th February 1980Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 14th February 1980What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 15th February 1980Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 16th February 1980What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 17th February 1980In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 18th February 1980What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 19th February 1980In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 20th February 1980In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 21st February 1980In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 22nd February 1980Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 23rd February 1980What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 24th February 1980How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 25th February 1980Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 26th February 1980In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 27th February 1980Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 28th February 1980What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 29th February 1980Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.