Daily Practice · GCSE History
October 2006 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in October 2006, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in October 2006
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2006Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 2nd October 2006In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 3rd October 2006Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 4th October 2006What was a Gauleiter?
- 5th October 2006What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 6th October 2006Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 7th October 2006In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 8th October 2006Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 9th October 2006On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 10th October 2006What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 11th October 2006Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 12th October 2006Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 13th October 2006Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 14th October 2006What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 15th October 2006Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 16th October 2006What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 17th October 2006What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 18th October 2006In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 19th October 2006In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 20th October 2006By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 21st October 2006Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 22nd October 2006What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 23rd October 2006Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 24th October 2006Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 25th October 2006What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 26th October 2006Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 27th October 2006What was the Privy Council?
- 28th October 2006What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 29th October 2006Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 30th October 2006Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 31st October 2006What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?