Daily Practice · GCSE History
December 2010 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in December 2010, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in December 2010
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2010What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 2nd December 2010What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 3rd December 2010Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 4th December 2010Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 5th December 2010What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 6th December 2010In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 7th December 2010What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 8th December 2010In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 9th December 2010What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 10th December 2010In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 11th December 2010Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 12th December 2010What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 13th December 2010Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 14th December 2010Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 15th December 2010In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 16th December 2010Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 17th December 2010Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 18th December 2010In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 19th December 2010Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 20th December 2010Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 21st December 2010Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 22nd December 2010What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 23rd December 2010Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 24th December 2010What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 25th December 2010What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 26th December 2010In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 27th December 2010In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 28th December 2010What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 29th December 2010Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 30th December 2010What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 31st December 2010Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?