Daily Practice · GCSE History
February 2000 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in February 2000, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in February 2000
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2000What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 2nd February 2000In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 3rd February 2000In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 4th February 2000In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 5th February 2000Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 6th February 2000In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 7th February 2000Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 8th February 2000In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 9th February 2000What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 10th February 2000Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 11th February 2000In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 12th February 2000Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 13th February 2000When did Germany formally reunify?
- 14th February 2000What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 15th February 2000Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 16th February 2000Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 17th February 2000Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 18th February 2000Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 19th February 2000Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 20th February 2000Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 21st February 2000What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 22nd February 2000In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 23rd February 2000What was a Gauleiter?
- 24th February 2000What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 25th February 2000Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 26th February 2000What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 27th February 2000Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 28th February 2000On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 29th February 2000What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?