Daily Practice · GCSE History
September 2008 - GCSE History 5-a-day
Every GCSE History sheet published in September 2008, with answers. Dates, causes, consequences and the detail an answer has to name.
Every sheet in September 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2008Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 2nd September 2008Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 3rd September 2008What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 4th September 2008Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 5th September 2008What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 6th September 2008Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 7th September 2008Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 8th September 2008In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 9th September 2008What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 10th September 2008How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 11th September 2008Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 12th September 2008What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 13th September 2008On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 14th September 2008Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 15th September 2008Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 16th September 2008What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 17th September 2008In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 18th September 2008In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 19th September 2008In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 20th September 2008Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 21st September 2008In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 22nd September 2008Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 23rd September 2008In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 24th September 2008What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 25th September 2008Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 26th September 2008In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 27th September 2008Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 28th September 2008When did Germany formally reunify?
- 29th September 2008What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 30th September 2008Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.