Daily Practice · GCSE History
December 2009 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in December 2009, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in December 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2009Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 2nd December 2009What was a Gauleiter?
- 3rd December 2009What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 4th December 2009How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 5th December 2009Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 6th December 2009What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 7th December 2009On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 8th December 2009What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 9th December 2009Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 10th December 2009What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 11th December 2009In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 12th December 2009What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 13th December 2009In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 14th December 2009What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 15th December 2009In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 16th December 2009Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 17th December 2009In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 18th December 2009By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 19th December 2009Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 20th December 2009In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 21st December 2009Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 22nd December 2009Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 23rd December 2009What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 24th December 2009Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 25th December 2009Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 26th December 2009Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 27th December 2009Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 28th December 2009Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 29th December 2009What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 30th December 2009What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 31st December 2009In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?