Daily Practice · GCSE History
May 1998 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in May 1998, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in May 1998
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1998What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 2nd May 1998Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 3rd May 1998Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 4th May 1998In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 5th May 1998What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 6th May 1998How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 7th May 1998Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 8th May 1998What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 9th May 1998On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 10th May 1998Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 11th May 1998Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 12th May 1998What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 13th May 1998In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 14th May 1998In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 15th May 1998In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 16th May 1998Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 17th May 1998In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 18th May 1998Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 19th May 1998In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 20th May 1998What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 21st May 1998Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 22nd May 1998In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 23rd May 1998Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 24th May 1998When did Germany formally reunify?
- 25th May 1998What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 26th May 1998Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 27th May 1998Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 28th May 1998Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 29th May 1998Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 30th May 1998Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 31st May 1998Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?