Daily Practice · GCSE History
July 2008 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in July 2008, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in July 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 2008What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 2nd July 2008Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 3rd July 2008Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 4th July 2008Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 5th July 2008What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 6th July 2008Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 7th July 2008What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 8th July 2008What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 9th July 2008In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 10th July 2008In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 11th July 2008By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 12th July 2008Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 13th July 2008What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 14th July 2008Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 15th July 2008Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 16th July 2008What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 17th July 2008Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 18th July 2008What was the Privy Council?
- 19th July 2008What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 20th July 2008Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 21st July 2008Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 22nd July 2008What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 23rd July 2008What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 24th July 2008In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 25th July 2008Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 26th July 2008Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 27th July 2008What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 28th July 2008What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 29th July 2008What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 30th July 2008Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 31st July 2008What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?