Daily Practice · GCSE History
May 2006 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in May 2006, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in May 2006
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2006What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 2nd May 2006What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 3rd May 2006Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 4th May 2006What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 5th May 2006What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 6th May 2006In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 7th May 2006What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 8th May 2006Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 9th May 2006What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 10th May 2006What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 11th May 2006What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 12th May 2006Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 13th May 2006In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 14th May 2006Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 15th May 2006Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 16th May 2006What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 17th May 2006What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 18th May 2006Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 19th May 2006What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 20th May 2006Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
- 21st May 2006Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
- 22nd May 2006In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 23rd May 2006What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 24th May 2006What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 25th May 2006What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 26th May 2006What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 27th May 2006On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 28th May 2006Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 29th May 2006In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 30th May 2006Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 31st May 2006When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?