Daily Practice · GCSE History
May 2017 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in May 2017, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in May 2017
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2017Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 2nd May 2017What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 3rd May 2017In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 4th May 2017In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 5th May 2017In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 6th May 2017Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 7th May 2017In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 8th May 2017Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 9th May 2017In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 10th May 2017What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 11th May 2017Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 12th May 2017In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 13th May 2017Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 14th May 2017When did Germany formally reunify?
- 15th May 2017What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 16th May 2017Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 17th May 2017Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 18th May 2017Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 19th May 2017Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 20th May 2017Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 21st May 2017Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 22nd May 2017What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 23rd May 2017In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 24th May 2017What was a Gauleiter?
- 25th May 2017What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 26th May 2017Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 27th May 2017What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 28th May 2017Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 29th May 2017On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 30th May 2017What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 31st May 2017Who were Elizabeth's parents?