Daily Practice · GCSE History
March 2009 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in March 2009, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in March 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2009Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 2nd March 2009What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 3rd March 2009Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 4th March 2009In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 5th March 2009Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 6th March 2009Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 7th March 2009What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 8th March 2009How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 9th March 2009How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 10th March 2009Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 11th March 2009What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 12th March 2009What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 13th March 2009Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 14th March 2009Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 15th March 2009What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 16th March 2009In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 17th March 2009What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 18th March 2009In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 19th March 2009What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 20th March 2009In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 21st March 2009Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 22nd March 2009What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 23rd March 2009Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 24th March 2009Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 25th March 2009In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 26th March 2009Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 27th March 2009Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 28th March 2009In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 29th March 2009Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 30th March 2009Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 31st March 2009Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?