Daily Practice · GCSE History
October 2000 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in October 2000, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in October 2000
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2000What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 2nd October 2000What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 3rd October 2000What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 4th October 2000Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 5th October 2000In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 6th October 2000By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 7th October 2000Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 8th October 2000Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 9th October 2000How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 10th October 2000Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 11th October 2000What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 12th October 2000What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 13th October 2000Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 14th October 2000Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 15th October 2000Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 16th October 2000Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 17th October 2000What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 18th October 2000Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 19th October 2000Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 20th October 2000Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 21st October 2000Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 22nd October 2000How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 23rd October 2000Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 24th October 2000What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 25th October 2000Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 26th October 2000What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 27th October 2000Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 28th October 2000What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 29th October 2000In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 30th October 2000What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 31st October 2000In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?