Daily Practice · GCSE History
December 1999 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in December 1999, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in December 1999
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1999What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 2nd December 1999Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 3rd December 1999What was the Privy Council?
- 4th December 1999What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 5th December 1999Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 6th December 1999Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 7th December 1999What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 8th December 1999What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 9th December 1999In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 10th December 1999Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 11th December 1999Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 12th December 1999What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 13th December 1999What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 14th December 1999What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 15th December 1999Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 16th December 1999What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 17th December 1999Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 18th December 1999Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 19th December 1999What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 20th December 1999What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 21st December 1999Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 22nd December 1999In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 23rd December 1999Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
- 24th December 1999Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
- 25th December 1999What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 26th December 1999How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 27th December 1999What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 28th December 1999What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 29th December 1999What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 30th December 1999What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 31st December 1999Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.