Daily Practice · GCSE History
August 1999 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in August 1999, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in August 1999
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1999What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 2nd August 1999On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 3rd August 1999What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 4th August 1999Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 5th August 1999What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 6th August 1999In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 7th August 1999What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 8th August 1999In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 9th August 1999What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 10th August 1999In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 11th August 1999Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 12th August 1999In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 13th August 1999By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 14th August 1999Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 15th August 1999In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 16th August 1999Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 17th August 1999Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 18th August 1999What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 19th August 1999Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 20th August 1999Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 21st August 1999Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 22nd August 1999Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 23rd August 1999Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 24th August 1999What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 25th August 1999What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 26th August 1999In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 27th August 1999Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 28th August 1999Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 29th August 1999Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 30th August 1999What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 31st August 1999Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?