Daily Practice · GCSE History
January 2008 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in January 2008, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in January 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2008Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 2nd January 2008Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 3rd January 2008What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 4th January 2008Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 5th January 2008Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 6th January 2008Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 7th January 2008What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 8th January 2008Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 9th January 2008In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 10th January 2008What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 11th January 2008In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 12th January 2008What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 13th January 2008How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 14th January 2008Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 15th January 2008What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 16th January 2008Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 17th January 2008What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 18th January 2008Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 19th January 2008Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 20th January 2008What was the Privy Council?
- 21st January 2008What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 22nd January 2008What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 23rd January 2008Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 24th January 2008What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 25th January 2008What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 26th January 2008In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 27th January 2008What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 28th January 2008Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 29th January 2008What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 30th January 2008What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 31st January 2008What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?