Daily Practice · GCSE History
February 2009 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in February 2009, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in February 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2009Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 2nd February 2009What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 3rd February 2009Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
- 4th February 2009Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
- 5th February 2009In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 6th February 2009By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 7th February 2009What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 8th February 2009What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 9th February 2009What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 10th February 2009Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 11th February 2009What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 12th February 2009In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 13th February 2009Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 14th February 2009When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 15th February 2009Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 16th February 2009What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 17th February 2009What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 18th February 2009What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 19th February 2009Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 20th February 2009Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 21st February 2009Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 22nd February 2009Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 23rd February 2009Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 24th February 2009How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 25th February 2009Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 26th February 2009What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 27th February 2009What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 28th February 2009Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.