Daily Practice · GCSE History
January 2012 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in January 2012, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in January 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2012Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 2nd January 2012Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 3rd January 2012What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 4th January 2012What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 5th January 2012In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 6th January 2012Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 7th January 2012Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 8th January 2012What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 9th January 2012What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 10th January 2012What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 11th January 2012Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 12th January 2012What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 13th January 2012Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 14th January 2012Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 15th January 2012What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 16th January 2012What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 17th January 2012Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 18th January 2012In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 19th January 2012Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
- 20th January 2012Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
- 21st January 2012What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 22nd January 2012How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 23rd January 2012What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 24th January 2012What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 25th January 2012What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 26th January 2012What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 27th January 2012Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 28th January 2012In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 29th January 2012Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 30th January 2012When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 31st January 2012What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?