Daily Practice · GCSE History
May 1999 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in May 1999, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in May 1999
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1999How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 2nd May 1999Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 3rd May 1999What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 4th May 1999Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 5th May 1999What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 6th May 1999Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 7th May 1999What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 8th May 1999In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 9th May 1999Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 10th May 1999In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 11th May 1999What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 12th May 1999In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 13th May 1999Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 14th May 1999Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 15th May 1999Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 16th May 1999Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 17th May 1999In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 18th May 1999Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 19th May 1999Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 20th May 1999What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 21st May 1999Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 22nd May 1999Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 23rd May 1999Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 24th May 1999What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 25th May 1999Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 26th May 1999In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 27th May 1999What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 28th May 1999In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 29th May 1999What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 30th May 1999How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 31st May 1999Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?