Daily Practice · GCSE History
July 2006 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in July 2006, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in July 2006
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 2006What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 2nd July 2006In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 3rd July 2006What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 4th July 2006In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 5th July 2006Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 6th July 2006In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 7th July 2006By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 8th July 2006Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 9th July 2006In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 10th July 2006Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 11th July 2006Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 12th July 2006What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 13th July 2006Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 14th July 2006Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 15th July 2006Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 16th July 2006Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 17th July 2006Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 18th July 2006What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 19th July 2006What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 20th July 2006In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 21st July 2006Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 22nd July 2006Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 23rd July 2006Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 24th July 2006What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 25th July 2006Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 26th July 2006Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 27th July 2006What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 28th July 2006Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 29th July 2006What was the Privy Council?
- 30th July 2006What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 31st July 2006What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?