Daily Practice · GCSE History
August 1996 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1996
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1996How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 2nd August 1996Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 3rd August 1996In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 4th August 1996What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 5th August 1996Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 6th August 1996Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 7th August 1996What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 8th August 1996Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 9th August 1996What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 10th August 1996Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 11th August 1996Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 12th August 1996In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 13th August 1996What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 14th August 1996How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 15th August 1996Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 16th August 1996What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 17th August 1996On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 18th August 1996Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 19th August 1996Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 20th August 1996What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 21st August 1996In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 22nd August 1996In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 23rd August 1996In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 24th August 1996Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 25th August 1996In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 26th August 1996Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 27th August 1996In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 28th August 1996What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 29th August 1996Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 30th August 1996In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 31st August 1996Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?