Daily Practice · GCSE History
January 2006 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in January 2006, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in January 2006
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2006In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 2nd January 2006What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 3rd January 2006In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 4th January 2006In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 5th January 2006In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 6th January 2006Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 7th January 2006What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 8th January 2006How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 9th January 2006Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 10th January 2006In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 11th January 2006Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 12th January 2006What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 13th January 2006Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 14th January 2006Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 15th January 2006Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 16th January 2006Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 17th January 2006What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 18th January 2006Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 19th January 2006What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 20th January 2006What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 21st January 2006In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 22nd January 2006What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 23rd January 2006Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 24th January 2006Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 25th January 2006What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 26th January 2006Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 27th January 2006Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 28th January 2006In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 29th January 2006Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 30th January 2006What was the Privy Council?
- 31st January 2006What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?