Daily Practice · GCSE History
December 2006 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in December 2006, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in December 2006
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2006What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 2nd December 2006Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 3rd December 2006What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 4th December 2006Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 5th December 2006Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 6th December 2006Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 7th December 2006How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 8th December 2006Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 9th December 2006In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 10th December 2006What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 11th December 2006Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 12th December 2006Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 13th December 2006What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 14th December 2006Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 15th December 2006What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 16th December 2006Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 17th December 2006Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 18th December 2006In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 19th December 2006What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 20th December 2006How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 21st December 2006Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 22nd December 2006What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 23rd December 2006On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 24th December 2006Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 25th December 2006Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 26th December 2006What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 27th December 2006In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 28th December 2006In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 29th December 2006In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 30th December 2006Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 31st December 2006In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?