Daily Practice · GCSE History
December 1986 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1986
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1986Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
- 2nd December 1986Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
- 3rd December 1986What was a Gauleiter?
- 4th December 1986What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 5th December 1986What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 6th December 1986What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 7th December 1986What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 8th December 1986On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 9th December 1986What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 10th December 1986In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 11th December 1986Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 12th December 1986When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 13th December 1986What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 14th December 1986What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 15th December 1986What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 16th December 1986What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 17th December 1986Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 18th December 1986In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 19th December 1986By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 20th December 1986Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 21st December 1986Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 22nd December 1986How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 23rd December 1986Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 24th December 1986What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 25th December 1986What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 26th December 1986Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 27th December 1986Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 28th December 1986Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 29th December 1986Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 30th December 1986What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 31st December 1986Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?