Daily Practice · GCSE History
October 2004 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in October 2004, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in October 2004
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2004How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 2nd October 2004Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 3rd October 2004What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 4th October 2004On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 5th October 2004What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 6th October 2004Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 7th October 2004What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 8th October 2004In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 9th October 2004What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 10th October 2004In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 11th October 2004What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 12th October 2004In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 13th October 2004Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 14th October 2004In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 15th October 2004By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 16th October 2004Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 17th October 2004In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 18th October 2004Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 19th October 2004Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 20th October 2004What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 21st October 2004Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 22nd October 2004Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 23rd October 2004Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 24th October 2004Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 25th October 2004Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 26th October 2004What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 27th October 2004What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 28th October 2004In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 29th October 2004Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 30th October 2004Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 31st October 2004Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?