Daily Practice · GCSE History
December 1955 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1955
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1955In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 2nd December 1955By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 3rd December 1955Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 4th December 1955Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 5th December 1955How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 6th December 1955Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 7th December 1955What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 8th December 1955What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 9th December 1955Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 10th December 1955Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 11th December 1955Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 12th December 1955Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 13th December 1955What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 14th December 1955Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 15th December 1955Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 16th December 1955Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 17th December 1955Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 18th December 1955How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 19th December 1955Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 20th December 1955What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 21st December 1955Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 22nd December 1955What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 23rd December 1955Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 24th December 1955What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 25th December 1955In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 26th December 1955What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 27th December 1955In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 28th December 1955In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 29th December 1955In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 30th December 1955Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 31st December 1955What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?