Daily Practice · GCSE History
June 2008 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in June 2008, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in June 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 2008Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 2nd June 2008What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 3rd June 2008Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 4th June 2008Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 5th June 2008In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 6th June 2008Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 7th June 2008Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 8th June 2008Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 9th June 2008Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 10th June 2008In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 11th June 2008What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 12th June 2008How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 13th June 2008Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 14th June 2008What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 15th June 2008When did Germany formally reunify?
- 16th June 2008What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 17th June 2008Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 18th June 2008What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 19th June 2008In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 20th June 2008Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 21st June 2008In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 22nd June 2008Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 23rd June 2008In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 24th June 2008Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 25th June 2008What was a Gauleiter?
- 26th June 2008What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 27th June 2008Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 28th June 2008In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 29th June 2008Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 30th June 2008On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?