Daily Practice · GCSE History
August 1995 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1995
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1995What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 2nd August 1995Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 3rd August 1995In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 4th August 1995By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 5th August 1995Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 6th August 1995Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 7th August 1995How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 8th August 1995Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 9th August 1995What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 10th August 1995What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 11th August 1995Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 12th August 1995Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 13th August 1995Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 14th August 1995Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 15th August 1995What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 16th August 1995Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 17th August 1995Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 18th August 1995Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 19th August 1995Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 20th August 1995How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 21st August 1995Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 22nd August 1995What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 23rd August 1995Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 24th August 1995What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 25th August 1995Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 26th August 1995What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 27th August 1995In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 28th August 1995What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 29th August 1995In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 30th August 1995In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 31st August 1995In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?