Daily Practice · GCSE History
December 1996 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1996
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1996Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 2nd December 1996Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 3rd December 1996Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 4th December 1996Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 5th December 1996In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 6th December 1996Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 7th December 1996Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 8th December 1996What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 9th December 1996In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 10th December 1996In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 11th December 1996What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 12th December 1996Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 13th December 1996What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 14th December 1996Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 15th December 1996When did Germany formally reunify?
- 16th December 1996What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 17th December 1996Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 18th December 1996What was the Privy Council?
- 19th December 1996What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 20th December 1996Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 21st December 1996Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 22nd December 1996Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 23rd December 1996What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 24th December 1996In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 25th December 1996What was a Gauleiter?
- 26th December 1996What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 27th December 1996What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 28th December 1996What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 29th December 1996What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 30th December 1996On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 31st December 1996What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?