Daily Practice · GCSE History
October 2001 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in October 2001, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in October 2001
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2001Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 2nd October 2001Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 3rd October 2001Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 4th October 2001How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 5th October 2001Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 6th October 2001In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 7th October 2001What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 8th October 2001Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 9th October 2001Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 10th October 2001What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 11th October 2001Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 12th October 2001What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 13th October 2001Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 14th October 2001Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 15th October 2001In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 16th October 2001What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 17th October 2001How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 18th October 2001Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 19th October 2001What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 20th October 2001On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 21st October 2001Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 22nd October 2001Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 23rd October 2001What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 24th October 2001In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 25th October 2001In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 26th October 2001In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 27th October 2001Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 28th October 2001In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 29th October 2001Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 30th October 2001In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 31st October 2001What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?