Daily Practice · GCSE History
March 2011 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in March 2011, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in March 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2011What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 2nd March 2011Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 3rd March 2011What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 4th March 2011Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 5th March 2011What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 6th March 2011In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 7th March 2011What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 8th March 2011In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 9th March 2011In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 10th March 2011In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 11th March 2011Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 12th March 2011What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 13th March 2011How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 14th March 2011Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 15th March 2011In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 16th March 2011Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 17th March 2011What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 18th March 2011Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 19th March 2011Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 20th March 2011Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 21st March 2011Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 22nd March 2011What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 23rd March 2011Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 24th March 2011What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 25th March 2011What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 26th March 2011In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 27th March 2011What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 28th March 2011Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 29th March 2011Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 30th March 2011What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 31st March 2011Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?