Daily Practice · GCSE History
July 1981 5-a-day
Every sheet in July 1981
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 1981Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
- 2nd July 1981In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 3rd July 1981By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 4th July 1981What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 5th July 1981What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 6th July 1981What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 7th July 1981Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 8th July 1981What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 9th July 1981In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 10th July 1981Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 11th July 1981When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 12th July 1981Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 13th July 1981What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 14th July 1981What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 15th July 1981What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 16th July 1981Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 17th July 1981Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 18th July 1981Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 19th July 1981Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 20th July 1981Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 21st July 1981How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 22nd July 1981Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 23rd July 1981What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 24th July 1981What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 25th July 1981Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 26th July 1981Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 27th July 1981What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 28th July 1981Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 29th July 1981In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 30th July 1981Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 31st July 1981Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.