Daily Practice · GCSE History
May 2004 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in May 2004, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in May 2004
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2004In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 2nd May 2004What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 3rd May 2004Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 4th May 2004Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 5th May 2004What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 6th May 2004Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 7th May 2004Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 8th May 2004In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 9th May 2004Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 10th May 2004What was the Privy Council?
- 11th May 2004What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 12th May 2004What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 13th May 2004Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 14th May 2004What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 15th May 2004What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 16th May 2004In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 17th May 2004In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 18th May 2004What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 19th May 2004What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 20th May 2004What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 21st May 2004What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 22nd May 2004On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 23rd May 2004Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 24th May 2004Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 25th May 2004Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 26th May 2004What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 27th May 2004In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 28th May 2004Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 29th May 2004Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 30th May 2004Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
- 31st May 2004Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?