Daily Practice · GCSE History
February 2011 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in February 2011, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in February 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2011What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 2nd February 2011In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 3rd February 2011Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 4th February 2011When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 5th February 2011What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 6th February 2011What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 7th February 2011What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 8th February 2011What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 9th February 2011Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 10th February 2011In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 11th February 2011By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 12th February 2011Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 13th February 2011Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 14th February 2011How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 15th February 2011Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 16th February 2011What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 17th February 2011What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 18th February 2011Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 19th February 2011Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 20th February 2011Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 21st February 2011Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 22nd February 2011What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 23rd February 2011Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 24th February 2011Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 25th February 2011Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 26th February 2011Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 27th February 2011How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 28th February 2011Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.