Daily Practice · GCSE History
May 1983 5-a-day
Every sheet in May 1983
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1983What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 2nd May 1983In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 3rd May 1983What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 4th May 1983In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 5th May 1983What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 6th May 1983In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 7th May 1983Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 8th May 1983What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 9th May 1983Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 10th May 1983Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 11th May 1983In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 12th May 1983Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 13th May 1983Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 14th May 1983In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 15th May 1983Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 16th May 1983Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 17th May 1983Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 18th May 1983What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 19th May 1983Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 20th May 1983What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 21st May 1983What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 22nd May 1983In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 23rd May 1983In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 24th May 1983What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 25th May 1983Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 26th May 1983What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 27th May 1983Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 28th May 1983On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 29th May 1983Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 30th May 1983Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 31st May 1983What was the Privy Council?