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October 1997 - GCSE History 5-a-day

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October 1997

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in October 1997

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

  1. 1st October 1997What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  2. 2nd October 1997Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  3. 3rd October 1997What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  4. 4th October 1997Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  5. 5th October 1997Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  6. 6th October 1997In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  7. 7th October 1997What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  8. 8th October 1997What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  9. 9th October 1997What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  10. 10th October 1997What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  11. 11th October 1997On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  12. 12th October 1997Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  13. 13th October 1997In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  14. 14th October 1997Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  15. 15th October 1997When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  16. 16th October 1997In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  17. 17th October 1997What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  18. 18th October 1997Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  19. 19th October 1997What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  20. 20th October 1997Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  21. 21st October 1997In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  22. 22nd October 1997What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  23. 23rd October 1997Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  24. 24th October 1997Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  25. 25th October 1997How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  26. 26th October 1997When did Germany formally reunify?
  27. 27th October 1997What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  28. 28th October 1997What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  29. 29th October 1997Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  30. 30th October 1997Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  31. 31st October 1997Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?