Daily Practice · GCSE History
February 2012 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in February 2012, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in February 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2012What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 2nd February 2012What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 3rd February 2012What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 4th February 2012Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 5th February 2012What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 6th February 2012Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 7th February 2012Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 8th February 2012Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 9th February 2012How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 10th February 2012Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 11th February 2012In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 12th February 2012What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 13th February 2012Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 14th February 2012Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 15th February 2012What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 16th February 2012Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 17th February 2012What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 18th February 2012Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 19th February 2012Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 20th February 2012In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 21st February 2012What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 22nd February 2012How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 23rd February 2012Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 24th February 2012What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 25th February 2012On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 26th February 2012Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 27th February 2012Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 28th February 2012What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 29th February 2012In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?