Daily Practice · GCSE History
December 1993 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1993
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1993Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 2nd December 1993What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 3rd December 1993Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 4th December 1993What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 5th December 1993In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 6th December 1993What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 7th December 1993In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 8th December 1993In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 9th December 1993In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 10th December 1993Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 11th December 1993What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 12th December 1993How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 13th December 1993Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 14th December 1993In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 15th December 1993Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 16th December 1993What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 17th December 1993Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 18th December 1993Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 19th December 1993Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 20th December 1993Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 21st December 1993What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 22nd December 1993Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 23rd December 1993What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 24th December 1993What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 25th December 1993In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 26th December 1993What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 27th December 1993Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 28th December 1993Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 29th December 1993What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 30th December 1993Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 31st December 1993Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?