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November 1996 - GCSE History 5-a-day

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November 1996

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in November 1996

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

  1. 1st November 1996Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  2. 2nd November 1996What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  3. 3rd November 1996Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  4. 4th November 1996Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  5. 5th November 1996What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  6. 6th November 1996Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  7. 7th November 1996What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  8. 8th November 1996Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  9. 9th November 1996Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  10. 10th November 1996What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  11. 11th November 1996Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  12. 12th November 1996How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  13. 13th November 1996Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  14. 14th November 1996What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  15. 15th November 1996Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  16. 16th November 1996In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  17. 17th November 1996Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  18. 18th November 1996What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  19. 19th November 1996In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  20. 20th November 1996What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  21. 21st November 1996In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  22. 22nd November 1996What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  23. 23rd November 1996In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  24. 24th November 1996Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  25. 25th November 1996In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  26. 26th November 1996What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  27. 27th November 1996Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  28. 28th November 1996In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  29. 29th November 1996Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  30. 30th November 1996On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?