Daily Practice · GCSE History
December 2005 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in December 2005, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in December 2005
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2005Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 2nd December 2005When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 3rd December 2005What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 4th December 2005What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 5th December 2005What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 6th December 2005What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 7th December 2005Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 8th December 2005In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 9th December 2005By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 10th December 2005Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 11th December 2005Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 12th December 2005How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 13th December 2005Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 14th December 2005What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 15th December 2005What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 16th December 2005Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 17th December 2005Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 18th December 2005Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 19th December 2005Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 20th December 2005What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 21st December 2005Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 22nd December 2005Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 23rd December 2005Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 24th December 2005Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 25th December 2005How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 26th December 2005Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 27th December 2005What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 28th December 2005Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 29th December 2005What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 30th December 2005Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 31st December 2005What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?