Daily Practice · GCSE History
May 1980 5-a-day
Every sheet in May 1980
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1980Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 2nd May 1980Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 3rd May 1980What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 4th May 1980Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 5th May 1980What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 6th May 1980Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 7th May 1980Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 8th May 1980In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 9th May 1980By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 10th May 1980How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 11th May 1980Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 12th May 1980What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 13th May 1980Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 14th May 1980What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 15th May 1980Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 16th May 1980What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 17th May 1980In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 18th May 1980Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 19th May 1980In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 20th May 1980What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 21st May 1980In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 22nd May 1980Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 23rd May 1980Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 24th May 1980Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 25th May 1980Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 26th May 1980In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 27th May 1980Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 28th May 1980Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 29th May 1980What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 30th May 1980Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 31st May 1980Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?