Daily Practice · GCSE History
March 2008 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in March 2008, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in March 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2008How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 2nd March 2008When did Germany formally reunify?
- 3rd March 2008What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 4th March 2008What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 5th March 2008Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 6th March 2008Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 7th March 2008Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 8th March 2008Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 9th March 2008Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 10th March 2008Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 11th March 2008Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 12th March 2008What was a Gauleiter?
- 13th March 2008What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 14th March 2008How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 15th March 2008Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 16th March 2008What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 17th March 2008On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 18th March 2008What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 19th March 2008Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 20th March 2008What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 21st March 2008In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 22nd March 2008What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 23rd March 2008In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 24th March 2008What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 25th March 2008In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 26th March 2008Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 27th March 2008In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 28th March 2008By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 29th March 2008Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 30th March 2008In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 31st March 2008Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?