Daily Practice · GCSE History
February 2008 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in February 2008, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in February 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2008Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 2nd February 2008In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 3rd February 2008Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 4th February 2008Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 5th February 2008What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 6th February 2008What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 7th February 2008Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 8th February 2008What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 9th February 2008Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
- 10th February 2008Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
- 11th February 2008In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 12th February 2008What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 13th February 2008What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 14th February 2008What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 15th February 2008What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 16th February 2008On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 17th February 2008Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 18th February 2008In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 19th February 2008Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 20th February 2008When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 21st February 2008In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 22nd February 2008What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 23rd February 2008Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 24th February 2008What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 25th February 2008Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 26th February 2008In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 27th February 2008What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 28th February 2008Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 29th February 2008Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.