Daily Practice · GCSE History
May 1981 5-a-day
Every sheet in May 1981
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1981Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 2nd May 1981Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 3rd May 1981What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 4th May 1981Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 5th May 1981How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 6th May 1981Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 7th May 1981What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 8th May 1981Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 9th May 1981In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 10th May 1981Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 11th May 1981What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 12th May 1981In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 13th May 1981What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 14th May 1981In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 15th May 1981What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 16th May 1981In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 17th May 1981Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 18th May 1981In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 19th May 1981What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 20th May 1981Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 21st May 1981In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 22nd May 1981Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 23rd May 1981On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 24th May 1981Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 25th May 1981Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 26th May 1981Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 27th May 1981Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 28th May 1981In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 29th May 1981Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 30th May 1981Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 31st May 1981What is Passchendaele also known as?