Daily Practice · GCSE History
August 1982 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1982
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1982When did Germany formally reunify?
- 2nd August 1982What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 3rd August 1982Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 4th August 1982What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 5th August 1982In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 6th August 1982Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 7th August 1982In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 8th August 1982Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 9th August 1982In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 10th August 1982Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 11th August 1982What was a Gauleiter?
- 12th August 1982What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 13th August 1982Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 14th August 1982In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 15th August 1982Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 16th August 1982On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 17th August 1982What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 18th August 1982Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 19th August 1982Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 20th August 1982Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 21st August 1982What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 22nd August 1982Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 23rd August 1982What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 24th August 1982What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 25th August 1982In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 26th August 1982In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 27th August 1982By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 28th August 1982Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 29th August 1982What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 30th August 1982Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 31st August 1982Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.