Daily Practice · GCSE History
May 2008 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in May 2008, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in May 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2008What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 2nd May 2008Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 3rd May 2008Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 4th May 2008Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 5th May 2008What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 6th May 2008What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 7th May 2008Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 8th May 2008What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 9th May 2008Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
- 10th May 2008Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
- 11th May 2008What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 12th May 2008Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 13th May 2008What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 14th May 2008What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 15th May 2008What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 16th May 2008Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 17th May 2008In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 18th May 2008In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 19th May 2008Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 20th May 2008When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 21st May 2008What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 22nd May 2008What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 23rd May 2008What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 24th May 2008What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 25th May 2008Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 26th May 2008In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 27th May 2008What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 28th May 2008Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 29th May 2008Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 30th May 2008How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 31st May 2008On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?