Daily Practice · GCSE History
December 1981 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1981
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1981Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 2nd December 1981What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 3rd December 1981Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 4th December 1981Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 5th December 1981In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 6th December 1981Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 7th December 1981What was the Privy Council?
- 8th December 1981What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 9th December 1981What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 10th December 1981Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 11th December 1981What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 12th December 1981What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 13th December 1981In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 14th December 1981In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 15th December 1981What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 16th December 1981What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 17th December 1981What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 18th December 1981What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 19th December 1981On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 20th December 1981Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 21st December 1981Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 22nd December 1981Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 23rd December 1981What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 24th December 1981In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 25th December 1981Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 26th December 1981Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 27th December 1981Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
- 28th December 1981Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
- 29th December 1981In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 30th December 1981What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 31st December 1981What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?