Daily Practice · GCSE History
February 2017 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in February 2017, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in February 2017
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2017What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 2nd February 2017In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 3rd February 2017Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 4th February 2017In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 5th February 2017Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 6th February 2017In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 7th February 2017Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 8th February 2017What was a Gauleiter?
- 9th February 2017What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 10th February 2017Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 11th February 2017In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 12th February 2017Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 13th February 2017On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 14th February 2017What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 15th February 2017Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 16th February 2017Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 17th February 2017Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 18th February 2017What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 19th February 2017Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 20th February 2017What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 21st February 2017What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 22nd February 2017In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 23rd February 2017In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 24th February 2017By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 25th February 2017Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 26th February 2017What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 27th February 2017Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 28th February 2017Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.