Daily Practice · GCSE History

August 1995 - GCSE History 5-a-day

← Today's GCSE History sheet

August 1995

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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.

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