Daily Practice · GCSE History
May 2014 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in May 2014, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in May 2014
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2014What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 2nd May 2014What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 3rd May 2014Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 4th May 2014Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 5th May 2014What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 6th May 2014Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 7th May 2014In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 8th May 2014Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 9th May 2014Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 10th May 2014What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 11th May 2014How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 12th May 2014How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 13th May 2014Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 14th May 2014What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 15th May 2014What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 16th May 2014Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 17th May 2014Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 18th May 2014What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 19th May 2014In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 20th May 2014What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 21st May 2014In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 22nd May 2014What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 23rd May 2014In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 24th May 2014Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 25th May 2014What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 26th May 2014Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 27th May 2014Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 28th May 2014In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 29th May 2014Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 30th May 2014Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 31st May 2014In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?