Daily Practice · GCSE History
December 1980 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1980
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1980What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 2nd December 1980What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 3rd December 1980In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 4th December 1980In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 5th December 1980By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 6th December 1980Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 7th December 1980What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 8th December 1980Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 9th December 1980Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 10th December 1980What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 11th December 1980Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 12th December 1980What was the Privy Council?
- 13th December 1980What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 14th December 1980Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 15th December 1980Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 16th December 1980What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 17th December 1980What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 18th December 1980In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 19th December 1980Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 20th December 1980Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 21st December 1980What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 22nd December 1980What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 23rd December 1980What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 24th December 1980Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 25th December 1980What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 26th December 1980Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 27th December 1980Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 28th December 1980What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 29th December 1980What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 30th December 1980Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 31st December 1980In what year did cholera first reach Britain?