Daily Practice · GCSE History
January 2005 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in January 2005, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in January 2005
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2005What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 2nd January 2005When did Germany formally reunify?
- 3rd January 2005What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 4th January 2005Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 5th January 2005What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 6th January 2005In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 7th January 2005Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 8th January 2005In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 9th January 2005Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 10th January 2005In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 11th January 2005Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 12th January 2005What was a Gauleiter?
- 13th January 2005What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 14th January 2005Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 15th January 2005In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 16th January 2005Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 17th January 2005On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 18th January 2005What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 19th January 2005Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 20th January 2005Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 21st January 2005Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 22nd January 2005What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 23rd January 2005Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 24th January 2005What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 25th January 2005What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 26th January 2005In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 27th January 2005In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 28th January 2005By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 29th January 2005Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 30th January 2005What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 31st January 2005Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?