Daily Practice · GCSE History
December 1959 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1959
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1959What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 2nd December 1959Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 3rd December 1959What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 4th December 1959In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 5th December 1959What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 6th December 1959In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 7th December 1959What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 8th December 1959In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 9th December 1959Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 10th December 1959In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 11th December 1959By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 12th December 1959Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 13th December 1959In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 14th December 1959Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 15th December 1959Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 16th December 1959What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 17th December 1959Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 18th December 1959Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 19th December 1959Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 20th December 1959Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 21st December 1959Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 22nd December 1959What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 23rd December 1959What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 24th December 1959In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 25th December 1959Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 26th December 1959Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 27th December 1959Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 28th December 1959What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 29th December 1959Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 30th December 1959Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 31st December 1959What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?