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December 2007 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in December 2007, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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December 2007

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in December 2007

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st December 2007Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  2. 2nd December 2007How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  3. 3rd December 2007On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  4. 4th December 2007What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  5. 5th December 2007What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  6. 6th December 2007Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  7. 7th December 2007Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  8. 8th December 2007What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  9. 9th December 2007Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  10. 10th December 2007What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  11. 11th December 2007Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  12. 12th December 2007Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  13. 13th December 2007In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  14. 14th December 2007By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  15. 15th December 2007How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  16. 16th December 2007Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  17. 17th December 2007What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  18. 18th December 2007Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  19. 19th December 2007What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  20. 20th December 2007Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  21. 21st December 2007What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  22. 22nd December 2007In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  23. 23rd December 2007Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  24. 24th December 2007In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  25. 25th December 2007What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  26. 26th December 2007In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  27. 27th December 2007Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  28. 28th December 2007Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  29. 29th December 2007Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  30. 30th December 2007Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  31. 31st December 2007In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?