Daily Practice · GCSE History
May 2015 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in May 2015, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in May 2015
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2015Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 2nd May 2015Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 3rd May 2015Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 4th May 2015Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 5th May 2015In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 6th May 2015What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 7th May 2015How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 8th May 2015Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 9th May 2015What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 10th May 2015When did Germany formally reunify?
- 11th May 2015What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 12th May 2015Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 13th May 2015What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 14th May 2015In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 15th May 2015Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 16th May 2015In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 17th May 2015Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 18th May 2015In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 19th May 2015Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 20th May 2015What was a Gauleiter?
- 21st May 2015What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 22nd May 2015Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 23rd May 2015In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 24th May 2015Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 25th May 2015On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 26th May 2015What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 27th May 2015Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 28th May 2015Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 29th May 2015Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 30th May 2015What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 31st May 2015Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.