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September 1999 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in September 1999, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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September 1999

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in September 1999

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

  1. 1st September 1999Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  2. 2nd September 1999What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  3. 3rd September 1999Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  4. 4th September 1999What was the Privy Council?
  5. 5th September 1999What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  6. 6th September 1999What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  7. 7th September 1999Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  8. 8th September 1999In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  9. 9th September 1999What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  10. 10th September 1999In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  11. 11th September 1999What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  12. 12th September 1999How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  13. 13th September 1999What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  14. 14th September 1999What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  15. 15th September 1999What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  16. 16th September 1999What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  17. 17th September 1999Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  18. 18th September 1999Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  19. 19th September 1999Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  20. 20th September 1999What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  21. 21st September 1999What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  22. 22nd September 1999Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  23. 23rd September 1999What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  24. 24th September 1999Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  25. 25th September 1999Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  26. 26th September 1999What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  27. 27th September 1999Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  28. 28th September 1999What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  29. 29th September 1999What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  30. 30th September 1999What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?