Daily Practice · GCSE History
May 2011 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in May 2011, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in May 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2011When did Germany formally reunify?
- 2nd May 2011What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 3rd May 2011In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 4th May 2011Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 5th May 2011When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 6th May 2011Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 7th May 2011What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 8th May 2011Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 9th May 2011What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 10th May 2011Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 11th May 2011What was a Gauleiter?
- 12th May 2011What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 13th May 2011Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 14th May 2011Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 15th May 2011How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 16th May 2011On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 17th May 2011What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 18th May 2011What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 19th May 2011Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 20th May 2011Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 21st May 2011What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 22nd May 2011Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 23rd May 2011What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 24th May 2011Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 25th May 2011Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 26th May 2011In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 27th May 2011By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 28th May 2011How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 29th May 2011Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 30th May 2011What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 31st May 2011Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.