Daily Practice · GCSE History
November 2012 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in November 2012, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in November 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 2012In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 2nd November 2012By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 3rd November 2012Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 4th November 2012Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 5th November 2012How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 6th November 2012Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 7th November 2012What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 8th November 2012What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 9th November 2012Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 10th November 2012Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 11th November 2012Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 12th November 2012Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 13th November 2012What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 14th November 2012Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 15th November 2012Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 16th November 2012Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 17th November 2012Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 18th November 2012How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 19th November 2012Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 20th November 2012What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 21st November 2012Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 22nd November 2012What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 23rd November 2012Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 24th November 2012What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 25th November 2012In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 26th November 2012What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 27th November 2012In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 28th November 2012In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 29th November 2012In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 30th November 2012Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?