Daily Practice · GCSE History
February 1985 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1985
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1985Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 2nd February 1985In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 3rd February 1985Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 4th February 1985Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 5th February 1985Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 6th February 1985What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 7th February 1985Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 8th February 1985What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 9th February 1985What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 10th February 1985In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 11th February 1985In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 12th February 1985What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 13th February 1985Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 14th February 1985What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 15th February 1985Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 16th February 1985On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 17th February 1985Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 18th February 1985Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 19th February 1985What was the Privy Council?
- 20th February 1985What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 21st February 1985In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 22nd February 1985Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 23rd February 1985Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 24th February 1985What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 25th February 1985In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 26th February 1985In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 27th February 1985What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 28th February 1985What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?