Daily Practice · GCSE History
May 2026 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in May 2026, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in May 2026
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2026What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 2nd May 2026What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 3rd May 2026Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 4th May 2026What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 5th May 2026Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
- 6th May 2026Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
- 7th May 2026In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 8th May 2026By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 9th May 2026What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 10th May 2026What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 11th May 2026What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 12th May 2026Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 13th May 2026What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 14th May 2026In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 15th May 2026Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 16th May 2026When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 17th May 2026Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 18th May 2026What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 19th May 2026What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 20th May 2026What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 21st May 2026Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 22nd May 2026Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 23rd May 2026Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 24th May 2026Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 25th May 2026Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 26th May 2026How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 27th May 2026Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 28th May 2026What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 29th May 2026What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 30th May 2026Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 31st May 2026Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.