Daily Practice · GCSE History
May 2016 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in May 2016, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in May 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2016How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 2nd May 2016Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 3rd May 2016What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 4th May 2016Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 5th May 2016What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 6th May 2016Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 7th May 2016What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 8th May 2016In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 9th May 2016What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 10th May 2016In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 11th May 2016In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 12th May 2016In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 13th May 2016Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 14th May 2016What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 15th May 2016How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 16th May 2016Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 17th May 2016In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 18th May 2016Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 19th May 2016What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 20th May 2016Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 21st May 2016Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 22nd May 2016Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 23rd May 2016Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 24th May 2016What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 25th May 2016Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 26th May 2016What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 27th May 2016What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 28th May 2016In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 29th May 2016What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 30th May 2016Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 31st May 2016Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?