Daily Practice · GCSE History
May 2009 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in May 2009, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in May 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2009Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 2nd May 2009Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 3rd May 2009Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 4th May 2009Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
- 5th May 2009Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
- 6th May 2009What was a Gauleiter?
- 7th May 2009What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 8th May 2009What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 9th May 2009What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 10th May 2009What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 11th May 2009On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 12th May 2009What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 13th May 2009In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 14th May 2009Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 15th May 2009When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 16th May 2009What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 17th May 2009What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 18th May 2009What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 19th May 2009What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 20th May 2009Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 21st May 2009In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 22nd May 2009By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 23rd May 2009Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 24th May 2009Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 25th May 2009How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 26th May 2009Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 27th May 2009What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 28th May 2009What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 29th May 2009Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 30th May 2009Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 31st May 2009Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.