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December 2019 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in December 2019, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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December 2019

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in December 2019

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st December 2019Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  2. 2nd December 2019Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  3. 3rd December 2019Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  4. 4th December 2019What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  5. 5th December 2019In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  6. 6th December 2019Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  7. 7th December 2019Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  8. 8th December 2019Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  9. 9th December 2019Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  10. 10th December 2019In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  11. 11th December 2019What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  12. 12th December 2019What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  13. 13th December 2019What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  14. 14th December 2019What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  15. 15th December 2019When did Germany formally reunify?
  16. 16th December 2019What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  17. 17th December 2019In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  18. 18th December 2019Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  19. 19th December 2019When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  20. 20th December 2019Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  21. 21st December 2019What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  22. 22nd December 2019Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  23. 23rd December 2019What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  24. 24th December 2019Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  25. 25th December 2019What was a Gauleiter?
  26. 26th December 2019What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  27. 27th December 2019Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  28. 28th December 2019Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  29. 29th December 2019How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  30. 30th December 2019On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  31. 31st December 2019What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?