Daily Practice · GCSE History
December 1979 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1979
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1979In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 2nd December 1979Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 3rd December 1979Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 4th December 1979Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 5th December 1979What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 6th December 1979Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 7th December 1979What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 8th December 1979What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 9th December 1979In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 10th December 1979In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 11th December 1979What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 12th December 1979Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 13th December 1979What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 14th December 1979Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 15th December 1979On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 16th December 1979Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 17th December 1979Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 18th December 1979What was the Privy Council?
- 19th December 1979What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 20th December 1979In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 21st December 1979Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 22nd December 1979Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 23rd December 1979What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 24th December 1979In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 25th December 1979In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 26th December 1979What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 27th December 1979What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 28th December 1979What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 29th December 1979What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 30th December 1979When did Germany formally reunify?
- 31st December 1979What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?