Daily Practice · GCSE History
December 1985 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1985
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1985Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 2nd December 1985What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 3rd December 1985What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 4th December 1985Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 5th December 1985What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 6th December 1985Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
- 7th December 1985Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
- 8th December 1985What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 9th December 1985Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 10th December 1985What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 11th December 1985What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 12th December 1985What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 13th December 1985Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 14th December 1985In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 15th December 1985In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 16th December 1985Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 17th December 1985When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 18th December 1985What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 19th December 1985What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 20th December 1985What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 21st December 1985What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 22nd December 1985Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 23rd December 1985In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 24th December 1985What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 25th December 1985Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 26th December 1985Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 27th December 1985How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 28th December 1985On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 29th December 1985Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 30th December 1985What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 31st December 1985Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.