Daily Practice · GCSE History
February 1988 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1988
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1988On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 2nd February 1988What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 3rd February 1988Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 4th February 1988What was the Privy Council?
- 5th February 1988What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 6th February 1988What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 7th February 1988Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 8th February 1988What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 9th February 1988What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 10th February 1988In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 11th February 1988In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 12th February 1988By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 13th February 1988What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 14th February 1988What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 15th February 1988What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 16th February 1988Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 17th February 1988What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 18th February 1988Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 19th February 1988Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 20th February 1988What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 21st February 1988Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 22nd February 1988Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 23rd February 1988What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 24th February 1988Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
- 25th February 1988Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
- 26th February 1988Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 27th February 1988Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 28th February 1988What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 29th February 1988What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?