Daily Practice · GCSE History
December 1989 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1989
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1989Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 2nd December 1989What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 3rd December 1989How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 4th December 1989Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 5th December 1989Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 6th December 1989How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 7th December 1989What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 8th December 1989Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 9th December 1989What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 10th December 1989Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 11th December 1989Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 12th December 1989What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 13th December 1989Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 14th December 1989What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 15th December 1989Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 16th December 1989Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 17th December 1989What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 18th December 1989Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 19th December 1989How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 20th December 1989Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 21st December 1989What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 22nd December 1989Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 23rd December 1989In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 24th December 1989Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 25th December 1989What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 26th December 1989In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 27th December 1989What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 28th December 1989In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 29th December 1989What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 30th December 1989In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 31st December 1989Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?