Daily Practice · GCSE History
October 1999 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in October 1999, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in October 1999
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1999Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 2nd October 1999In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 3rd October 1999In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 4th October 1999Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 5th October 1999When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 6th October 1999What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 7th October 1999What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 8th October 1999What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 9th October 1999What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 10th October 1999Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 11th October 1999In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 12th October 1999What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 13th October 1999Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 14th October 1999Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 15th October 1999How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 16th October 1999On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 17th October 1999Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 18th October 1999What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 19th October 1999Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 20th October 1999Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 21st October 1999In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 22nd October 1999Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 23rd October 1999Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 24th October 1999Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 25th October 1999Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 26th October 1999In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 27th October 1999What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 28th October 1999How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 29th October 1999Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 30th October 1999What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 31st October 1999When did Germany formally reunify?