Daily Practice · GCSE History
May 2005 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in May 2005, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in May 2005
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2005Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 2nd May 2005On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 3rd May 2005What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 4th May 2005Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 5th May 2005What was the Privy Council?
- 6th May 2005What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 7th May 2005What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 8th May 2005Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 9th May 2005What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 10th May 2005What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 11th May 2005In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 12th May 2005In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 13th May 2005By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 14th May 2005What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 15th May 2005What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 16th May 2005What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 17th May 2005Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 18th May 2005What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 19th May 2005Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 20th May 2005Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 21st May 2005What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 22nd May 2005Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 23rd May 2005Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 24th May 2005What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 25th May 2005Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
- 26th May 2005Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
- 27th May 2005Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 28th May 2005Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 29th May 2005What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 30th May 2005What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 31st May 2005What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?