Daily Practice · GCSE History
March 2006 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in March 2006, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in March 2006
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2006Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 2nd March 2006When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 3rd March 2006Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 4th March 2006What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 5th March 2006Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 6th March 2006What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 7th March 2006Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 8th March 2006What was a Gauleiter?
- 9th March 2006What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 10th March 2006Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 11th March 2006Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 12th March 2006How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 13th March 2006On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 14th March 2006What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 15th March 2006What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 16th March 2006Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 17th March 2006Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 18th March 2006What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 19th March 2006Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 20th March 2006What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 21st March 2006Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 22nd March 2006Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 23rd March 2006In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 24th March 2006By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 25th March 2006How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 26th March 2006Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 27th March 2006What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 28th March 2006Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 29th March 2006What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 30th March 2006Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 31st March 2006What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?