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September 2003 - GCSE History 5-a-day

Every GCSE History sheet published in September 2003, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.

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September 2003

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in September 2003

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 2003Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  2. 2nd September 2003What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  3. 3rd September 2003Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  4. 4th September 2003Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  5. 5th September 2003Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  6. 6th September 2003Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  7. 7th September 2003What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  8. 8th September 2003What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  9. 9th September 2003What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  10. 10th September 2003Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  11. 11th September 2003What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  12. 12th September 2003In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  13. 13th September 2003Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  14. 14th September 2003When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  15. 15th September 2003What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  16. 16th September 2003What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  17. 17th September 2003In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  18. 18th September 2003What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  19. 19th September 2003Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  20. 20th September 2003What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  21. 21st September 2003How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  22. 22nd September 2003Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  23. 23rd September 2003Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  24. 24th September 2003How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  25. 25th September 2003What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  26. 26th September 2003Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  27. 27th September 2003What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  28. 28th September 2003Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  29. 29th September 2003Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  30. 30th September 2003What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?