Daily Practice · GCSE History
May 2012 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in May 2012, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in May 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2012What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 2nd May 2012In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 3rd May 2012What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 4th May 2012Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 5th May 2012What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 6th May 2012How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 7th May 2012Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 8th May 2012Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 9th May 2012How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 10th May 2012What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 11th May 2012Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 12th May 2012What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 13th May 2012Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 14th May 2012Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 15th May 2012What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 16th May 2012Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 17th May 2012What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 18th May 2012Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 19th May 2012Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 20th May 2012What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 21st May 2012Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 22nd May 2012How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 23rd May 2012Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 24th May 2012What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 25th May 2012Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 26th May 2012In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 27th May 2012Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 28th May 2012What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 29th May 2012In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 30th May 2012What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 31st May 2012In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?