Daily Practice · GCSE History
May 2003 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in May 2003, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in May 2003
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2003Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 2nd May 2003Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 3rd May 2003What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 4th May 2003Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 5th May 2003What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 6th May 2003What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 7th May 2003In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 8th May 2003In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 9th May 2003By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 10th May 2003Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 11th May 2003What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 12th May 2003Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 13th May 2003Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 14th May 2003What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 15th May 2003Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 16th May 2003What was the Privy Council?
- 17th May 2003What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 18th May 2003Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 19th May 2003Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 20th May 2003What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 21st May 2003What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 22nd May 2003In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 23rd May 2003Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 24th May 2003Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 25th May 2003What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 26th May 2003What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 27th May 2003What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 28th May 2003Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 29th May 2003What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 30th May 2003Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 31st May 2003Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?