Daily Practice · GCSE History
January 2001 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in January 2001, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in January 2001
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2001What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 2nd January 2001Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 3rd January 2001What was a Gauleiter?
- 4th January 2001What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 5th January 2001Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 6th January 2001Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 7th January 2001How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 8th January 2001On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 9th January 2001What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 10th January 2001What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 11th January 2001Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 12th January 2001Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 13th January 2001What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 14th January 2001Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 15th January 2001What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 16th January 2001Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 17th January 2001Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 18th January 2001In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 19th January 2001By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 20th January 2001How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 21st January 2001Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 22nd January 2001What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 23rd January 2001Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 24th January 2001What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 25th January 2001Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 26th January 2001What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 27th January 2001In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 28th January 2001Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 29th January 2001In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 30th January 2001What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 31st January 2001In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?