Daily Practice · GCSE History
October 1980 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1980
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1980Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 2nd October 1980What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 3rd October 1980Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
- 4th October 1980Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
- 5th October 1980What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 6th October 1980Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 7th October 1980What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 8th October 1980What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 9th October 1980What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 10th October 1980Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 11th October 1980In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 12th October 1980In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 13th October 1980Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 14th October 1980When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 15th October 1980What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 16th October 1980What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 17th October 1980What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 18th October 1980What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 19th October 1980Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 20th October 1980In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 21st October 1980What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 22nd October 1980Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 23rd October 1980Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 24th October 1980How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 25th October 1980On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 26th October 1980Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 27th October 1980What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 28th October 1980Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 29th October 1980Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 30th October 1980In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 31st October 1980Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.