Daily Practice · GCSE History
August 1980 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1980
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1980Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 2nd August 1980Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 3rd August 1980Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 4th August 1980Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 5th August 1980Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 6th August 1980What was a Gauleiter?
- 7th August 1980What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 8th August 1980How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 9th August 1980Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 10th August 1980What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 11th August 1980On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 12th August 1980What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 13th August 1980Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 14th August 1980What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 15th August 1980In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 16th August 1980What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 17th August 1980In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 18th August 1980What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 19th August 1980In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 20th August 1980Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 21st August 1980In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 22nd August 1980By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 23rd August 1980Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 24th August 1980In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 25th August 1980Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 26th August 1980Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 27th August 1980What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 28th August 1980Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 29th August 1980Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 30th August 1980Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 31st August 1980Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.