Daily Practice · GCSE History
October 1998 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in October 1998, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in October 1998
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1998In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 2nd October 1998By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 3rd October 1998What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 4th October 1998What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 5th October 1998What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 6th October 1998Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 7th October 1998What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 8th October 1998In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 9th October 1998Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 10th October 1998When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 11th October 1998Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 12th October 1998What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 13th October 1998What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 14th October 1998What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 15th October 1998Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 16th October 1998Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 17th October 1998Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 18th October 1998Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 19th October 1998Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 20th October 1998How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 21st October 1998Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 22nd October 1998What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 23rd October 1998What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 24th October 1998Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 25th October 1998Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 26th October 1998What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 27th October 1998Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 28th October 1998In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 29th October 1998Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 30th October 1998Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 31st October 1998What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?