Daily Practice · GCSE History
January 1999 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in January 1999, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in January 1999
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1999What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 2nd January 1999What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 3rd January 1999What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 4th January 1999On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 5th January 1999What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 6th January 1999In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 7th January 1999Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 8th January 1999When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 9th January 1999What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 10th January 1999What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 11th January 1999What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 12th January 1999What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 13th January 1999Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 14th January 1999In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 15th January 1999By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 16th January 1999Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 17th January 1999Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 18th January 1999How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 19th January 1999Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 20th January 1999What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 21st January 1999What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 22nd January 1999Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 23rd January 1999Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 24th January 1999Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 25th January 1999Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 26th January 1999What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 27th January 1999Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 28th January 1999Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 29th January 1999Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 30th January 1999Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 31st January 1999How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?