Daily Practice · GCSE History
February 2005 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in February 2005, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in February 2005
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2005Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 2nd February 2005What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 3rd February 2005Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 4th February 2005What was the Privy Council?
- 5th February 2005What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 6th February 2005Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 7th February 2005Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 8th February 2005What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 9th February 2005What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 10th February 2005In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 11th February 2005Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 12th February 2005Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 13th February 2005What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 14th February 2005What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 15th February 2005What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 16th February 2005Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 17th February 2005What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 18th February 2005Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 19th February 2005Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 20th February 2005What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 21st February 2005What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 22nd February 2005Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 23rd February 2005In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 24th February 2005Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
- 25th February 2005Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
- 26th February 2005What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 27th February 2005How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 28th February 2005What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?