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December 2023 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in December 2023, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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December 2023

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in December 2023

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 2023What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  2. 2nd December 2023What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  3. 3rd December 2023Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  4. 4th December 2023In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  5. 5th December 2023What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  6. 6th December 2023Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  7. 7th December 2023Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  8. 8th December 2023How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  9. 9th December 2023On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  10. 10th December 2023Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  11. 11th December 2023What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  12. 12th December 2023Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  13. 13th December 2023Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  14. 14th December 2023In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  15. 15th December 2023Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  16. 16th December 2023Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  17. 17th December 2023Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  18. 18th December 2023Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  19. 19th December 2023In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  20. 20th December 2023What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  21. 21st December 2023How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  22. 22nd December 2023Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  23. 23rd December 2023What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  24. 24th December 2023When did Germany formally reunify?
  25. 25th December 2023What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  26. 26th December 2023Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  27. 27th December 2023What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  28. 28th December 2023In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  29. 29th December 2023Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  30. 30th December 2023In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  31. 31st December 2023Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?