Daily Practice · GCSE History
January 1988 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1988
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1988What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 2nd January 1988On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 3rd January 1988Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 4th January 1988Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 5th January 1988What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 6th January 1988In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 7th January 1988In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 8th January 1988In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 9th January 1988Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 10th January 1988In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 11th January 1988Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 12th January 1988In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 13th January 1988What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 14th January 1988Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 15th January 1988In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 16th January 1988Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 17th January 1988When did Germany formally reunify?
- 18th January 1988What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 19th January 1988Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 20th January 1988Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 21st January 1988Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 22nd January 1988Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 23rd January 1988Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 24th January 1988Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 25th January 1988What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 26th January 1988In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 27th January 1988What was a Gauleiter?
- 28th January 1988What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 29th January 1988Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 30th January 1988What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 31st January 1988Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?