Daily Practice · GCSE History
July 2009 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in July 2009, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in July 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 2009Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 2nd July 2009What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 3rd July 2009What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 4th July 2009In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 5th July 2009What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 6th July 2009Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 7th July 2009Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 8th July 2009What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 9th July 2009Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 10th July 2009Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 11th July 2009In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 12th July 2009Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 13th July 2009What was the Privy Council?
- 14th July 2009What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 15th July 2009What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 16th July 2009Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 17th July 2009What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 18th July 2009What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 19th July 2009In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 20th July 2009In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 21st July 2009What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 22nd July 2009What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 23rd July 2009What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 24th July 2009What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 25th July 2009On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 26th July 2009Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 27th July 2009Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 28th July 2009Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 29th July 2009What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 30th July 2009In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 31st July 2009Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.