Daily Practice · GCSE History
December 1956 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1956
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1956In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 2nd December 1956What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 3rd December 1956Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 4th December 1956Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 5th December 1956What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 6th December 1956Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 7th December 1956What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 8th December 1956Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 9th December 1956Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 10th December 1956In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 11th December 1956What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 12th December 1956How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 13th December 1956Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 14th December 1956What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 15th December 1956On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 16th December 1956Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 17th December 1956Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 18th December 1956What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 19th December 1956In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 20th December 1956In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 21st December 1956In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 22nd December 1956Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 23rd December 1956In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 24th December 1956Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 25th December 1956In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 26th December 1956What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 27th December 1956Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 28th December 1956In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 29th December 1956Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 30th December 1956When did Germany formally reunify?
- 31st December 1956What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?