Daily Practice · GCSE History
June 2011 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in June 2011, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in June 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 2011What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 2nd June 2011Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 3rd June 2011What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 4th June 2011In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 5th June 2011Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 6th June 2011In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 7th June 2011What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 8th June 2011In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 9th June 2011Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 10th June 2011Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 11th June 2011Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 12th June 2011Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 13th June 2011In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 14th June 2011Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 15th June 2011Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 16th June 2011What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 17th June 2011Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 18th June 2011Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 19th June 2011Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 20th June 2011What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 21st June 2011Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 22nd June 2011In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 23rd June 2011What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 24th June 2011In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 25th June 2011What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 26th June 2011How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 27th June 2011Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 28th June 2011What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 29th June 2011Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 30th June 2011What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?