Daily Practice · GCSE History
July 1985 5-a-day
Every sheet in July 1985
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 1985On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 2nd July 1985What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 3rd July 1985What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 4th July 1985Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 5th July 1985Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 6th July 1985What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 7th July 1985Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 8th July 1985What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 9th July 1985Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 10th July 1985Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 11th July 1985In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 12th July 1985By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 13th July 1985How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 14th July 1985Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 15th July 1985What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 16th July 1985Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 17th July 1985What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 18th July 1985Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 19th July 1985What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 20th July 1985In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 21st July 1985Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 22nd July 1985In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 23rd July 1985What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 24th July 1985In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 25th July 1985Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 26th July 1985Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 27th July 1985Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 28th July 1985Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 29th July 1985In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 30th July 1985Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 31st July 1985Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?