Daily Practice · GCSE History
December 1997 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1997
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1997Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 2nd December 1997What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 3rd December 1997What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 4th December 1997In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 5th December 1997Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 6th December 1997Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 7th December 1997Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 8th December 1997What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 9th December 1997Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 10th December 1997Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 11th December 1997What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 12th December 1997Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 13th December 1997What was the Privy Council?
- 14th December 1997What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 15th December 1997What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 16th December 1997Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 17th December 1997In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 18th December 1997What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 19th December 1997In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 20th December 1997What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 21st December 1997How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 22nd December 1997What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 23rd December 1997What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 24th December 1997What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 25th December 1997What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 26th December 1997Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 27th December 1997Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 28th December 1997Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 29th December 1997What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 30th December 1997What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 31st December 1997Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.