Daily Practice · GCSE History
December 2016 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in December 2016, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in December 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2016What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 2nd December 2016Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 3rd December 2016What was the Privy Council?
- 4th December 2016What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 5th December 2016What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 6th December 2016Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 7th December 2016In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 8th December 2016What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 9th December 2016In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 10th December 2016What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 11th December 2016How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 12th December 2016What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 13th December 2016What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 14th December 2016What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 15th December 2016What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 16th December 2016Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 17th December 2016Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 18th December 2016Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 19th December 2016What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 20th December 2016What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 21st December 2016Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 22nd December 2016What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 23rd December 2016Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
- 24th December 2016Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
- 25th December 2016What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 26th December 2016Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 27th December 2016What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 28th December 2016What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 29th December 2016What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 30th December 2016Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 31st December 2016In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?