Daily Practice · GCSE History
August 1998 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in August 1998, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in August 1998
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1998Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 2nd August 1998What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 3rd August 1998Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 4th August 1998How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 5th August 1998Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 6th August 1998What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 7th August 1998Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 8th August 1998In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 9th August 1998Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 10th August 1998What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 11th August 1998In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 12th August 1998What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 13th August 1998In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 14th August 1998What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 15th August 1998In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 16th August 1998Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 17th August 1998In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 18th August 1998What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 19th August 1998Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 20th August 1998In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 21st August 1998Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 22nd August 1998On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 23rd August 1998Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 24th August 1998Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 25th August 1998Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 26th August 1998Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 27th August 1998In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 28th August 1998Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 29th August 1998Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 30th August 1998What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 31st August 1998In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?