Daily Practice · GCSE History
December 2011 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in December 2011, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in December 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2011In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 2nd December 2011Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 3rd December 2011In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 4th December 2011Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 5th December 2011In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 6th December 2011Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 7th December 2011What was a Gauleiter?
- 8th December 2011What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 9th December 2011Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 10th December 2011In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 11th December 2011Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 12th December 2011On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 13th December 2011What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 14th December 2011Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 15th December 2011Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 16th December 2011Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 17th December 2011What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 18th December 2011Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 19th December 2011What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 20th December 2011What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 21st December 2011In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 22nd December 2011In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 23rd December 2011By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 24th December 2011Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 25th December 2011What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 26th December 2011Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 27th December 2011Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 28th December 2011What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 29th December 2011Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 30th December 2011What was the Privy Council?
- 31st December 2011What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?