Daily Practice · GCSE History
April 1991 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1991
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1991On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 2nd April 1991What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 3rd April 1991Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 4th April 1991Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 5th April 1991Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 6th April 1991What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 7th April 1991Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 8th April 1991What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 9th April 1991What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 10th April 1991In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 11th April 1991In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 12th April 1991By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 13th April 1991Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 14th April 1991What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 15th April 1991Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 16th April 1991Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 17th April 1991What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 18th April 1991Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 19th April 1991What was the Privy Council?
- 20th April 1991What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 21st April 1991Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 22nd April 1991Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 23rd April 1991What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 24th April 1991What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 25th April 1991In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 26th April 1991Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 27th April 1991Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 28th April 1991What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 29th April 1991What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 30th April 1991What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?