Daily Practice · GCSE History
February 1986 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1986
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1986What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 2nd February 1986Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 3rd February 1986What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 4th February 1986What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 5th February 1986In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 6th February 1986In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 7th February 1986By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 8th February 1986Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 9th February 1986What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 10th February 1986Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 11th February 1986Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 12th February 1986What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 13th February 1986Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 14th February 1986What was the Privy Council?
- 15th February 1986What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 16th February 1986Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 17th February 1986Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 18th February 1986What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 19th February 1986What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 20th February 1986In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 21st February 1986Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 22nd February 1986Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 23rd February 1986What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 24th February 1986What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 25th February 1986What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 26th February 1986Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 27th February 1986What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 28th February 1986Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?