Daily Practice · GCSE History
December 1990 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1990
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1990How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 2nd December 1990When did Germany formally reunify?
- 3rd December 1990What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 4th December 1990What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 5th December 1990Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 6th December 1990Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 7th December 1990Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 8th December 1990Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 9th December 1990Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 10th December 1990Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 11th December 1990Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 12th December 1990What was a Gauleiter?
- 13th December 1990What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 14th December 1990How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 15th December 1990Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 16th December 1990What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 17th December 1990On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 18th December 1990What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 19th December 1990Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 20th December 1990What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 21st December 1990In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 22nd December 1990What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 23rd December 1990In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 24th December 1990What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 25th December 1990In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 26th December 1990Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 27th December 1990In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 28th December 1990By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 29th December 1990Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 30th December 1990In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 31st December 1990Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?