Daily Practice · GCSE History
October 2002 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in October 2002, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in October 2002
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2002What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 2nd October 2002What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 3rd October 2002Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 4th October 2002Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 5th October 2002What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 6th October 2002Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 7th October 2002What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 8th October 2002Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 9th October 2002Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 10th October 2002In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 11th October 2002By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 12th October 2002How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 13th October 2002Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 14th October 2002What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 15th October 2002Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 16th October 2002What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 17th October 2002Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 18th October 2002What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 19th October 2002In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 20th October 2002Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 21st October 2002In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 22nd October 2002What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 23rd October 2002In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 24th October 2002Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 25th October 2002Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 26th October 2002Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 27th October 2002Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 28th October 2002In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 29th October 2002Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 30th October 2002Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 31st October 2002What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?