Daily Practice · GCSE History
December 2008 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in December 2008, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in December 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2008Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 2nd December 2008What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 3rd December 2008Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 4th December 2008What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 5th December 2008Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 6th December 2008Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 7th December 2008What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 8th December 2008Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 9th December 2008How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 10th December 2008Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 11th December 2008What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 12th December 2008Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 13th December 2008In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 14th December 2008Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 15th December 2008What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 16th December 2008In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 17th December 2008What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 18th December 2008In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 19th December 2008What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 20th December 2008In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 21st December 2008Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 22nd December 2008In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 23rd December 2008What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 24th December 2008Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 25th December 2008In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 26th December 2008Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 27th December 2008On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 28th December 2008Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 29th December 2008Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 30th December 2008Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 31st December 2008Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?