Daily Practice · GCSE History
July 2005 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in July 2005, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in July 2005
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 2005Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 2nd July 2005In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 3rd July 2005Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 4th July 2005What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 5th July 2005In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 6th July 2005What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 7th July 2005In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 8th July 2005What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 9th July 2005In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 10th July 2005Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 11th July 2005In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 12th July 2005What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 13th July 2005Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 14th July 2005In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 15th July 2005Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 16th July 2005On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 17th July 2005Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 18th July 2005Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 19th July 2005Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 20th July 2005Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 21st July 2005In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 22nd July 2005Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 23rd July 2005Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 24th July 2005What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 25th July 2005In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 26th July 2005In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 27th July 2005What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 28th July 2005Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 29th July 2005What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 30th July 2005Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 31st July 2005When did Germany formally reunify?