Daily Practice · GCSE History
May 2001 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in May 2001, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in May 2001
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2001In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 2nd May 2001Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 3rd May 2001In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 4th May 2001By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 5th May 2001Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 6th May 2001In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 7th May 2001Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 8th May 2001Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 9th May 2001What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 10th May 2001Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 11th May 2001Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 12th May 2001Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 13th May 2001Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 14th May 2001Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 15th May 2001What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 16th May 2001What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 17th May 2001In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 18th May 2001Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 19th May 2001Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 20th May 2001Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 21st May 2001What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 22nd May 2001Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 23rd May 2001Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 24th May 2001What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 25th May 2001Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 26th May 2001What was the Privy Council?
- 27th May 2001What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 28th May 2001What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 29th May 2001Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 30th May 2001In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 31st May 2001What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?