Daily Practice · GCSE History
January 2009 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in January 2009, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in January 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2009In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 2nd January 2009Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 3rd January 2009Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 4th January 2009What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 5th January 2009In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 6th January 2009In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 7th January 2009What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 8th January 2009Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 9th January 2009What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 10th January 2009Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 11th January 2009When did Germany formally reunify?
- 12th January 2009What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 13th January 2009Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 14th January 2009What was the Privy Council?
- 15th January 2009What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 16th January 2009Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 17th January 2009Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 18th January 2009Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 19th January 2009What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 20th January 2009In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 21st January 2009What was a Gauleiter?
- 22nd January 2009What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 23rd January 2009What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 24th January 2009What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 25th January 2009What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 26th January 2009On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 27th January 2009What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 28th January 2009Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 29th January 2009Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 30th January 2009What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 31st January 2009What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?