Daily Practice · GCSE History
May 2020 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in May 2020, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in May 2020
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2020Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 2nd May 2020Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 3rd May 2020Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 4th May 2020Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 5th May 2020What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 6th May 2020What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 7th May 2020In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 8th May 2020Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 9th May 2020Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 10th May 2020Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 11th May 2020What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 12th May 2020Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 13th May 2020Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 14th May 2020What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 15th May 2020Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 16th May 2020What was the Privy Council?
- 17th May 2020What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 18th May 2020What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 19th May 2020Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 20th May 2020In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 21st May 2020What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 22nd May 2020In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 23rd May 2020What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 24th May 2020How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 25th May 2020What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 26th May 2020What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 27th May 2020What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 28th May 2020What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 29th May 2020Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 30th May 2020Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 31st May 2020Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?